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Pretrial liaison between doctors in alleged child abuse
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Editor,—We were interested in the annotation on pretrial or precourt hearing liaison between doctors acting as expert witnesses in the cases of alleged child abuse.1 We agree that there is considerable utility in this approach as the following case illustrates.
A set of female triplets were initially referred to one us (DH) for review and examination following a disclosure that they had been sexually abused by their father. The children were examined by colposcopy using a standard …