and only on two a Katie mother outraged
after she says a school contracted
doctor School contracted doctor crossed
the line when he took her teenage
daughter's pulse yeah she says that
despite the multiple pulse points on the
body the doctor took her PO pulse in the
groin area furthermore she says she does
not believe KY ISD will stop it from
happening again to other children let's
go to Devin Clark he's live in Katie
tonight to relay her concerns and a
message from that doctor's employer Deon
Daniela Keith the mother we spoke to
says that inappropriate contact happened
here on the Wood Creek junior high
school campus back in May but to this
day she says she still has not gotten
the response from KD ISD that she wanted
she's hoping her story tonight amplifies
her concerns and leads to this one major
change I was like oh no no no that's not
going to work for me Beverly Smith
thinks back to May 11th it's when she
says her 13-year-old twins a boy and a
girl and both Katie ISD athletes went to
get physicals for strength and
conditioning training here on the woodc
Creek junior high school campus the
doctors working for medical colleagues
of Texas were contracted through the
district my son went and saw The
Physician um and he came out everything
was fine but Smith says her daughter who
saw a different doctor described a very
different experience about the way he
took her pulse and I said watch and and
she said she showed me she said here and
I said under your shorts or on top of
your shorts not that it made a
difference cuz he shouldn't be touching
it anyhow and she said underneath my
shorts Smith says her daughter was
traumatized and anxious and speaking to
the athletic director did not ease
concerns who told me he's been doing it
that way for years and uh you know that
he's a doctor and I said so is Larry
Nasser and there's no good reason you
can give me that would make that okay
she says she got law enforcement
involved and they took a report Smith
says this is the ktie ISD police report
which in part States after her complaint
the athletic director went to observe
the doctor conducting physicals and saw
that he checked for pulses the same way
for every student male and female a
spokesperson with the medical colleagues
of Texas said the physicals are
conducted in accordance with established
medical protocols a statement sent to us
partly States the inclusion of feral
pulse readings is a routine procedure
aligned with medical guidelines
specifically this reading is used to
check for coarctation of the aor A
congenital narrowing of the aort but
Smith who says the Texas Medical Board
is now investigating the doctor
strongly disagrees we have reached out
to many people in the medical field
we've reached out to EMTs not a single
person who is qualified or not qualified
to comment on pulse taking has said that
that was
acceptable out of all of this Smith says
she hopes that Katie ISD implements a
policy prohibiting groin area pulse
checks we did reach out to KY ISD and
we're told that we would receive a
statement but so far that has not
happened yet regarding L Smith says she
will never have her kids have a physical
through the district again reporting
live in ktie Devin Clark kprc2 news all
right Devon thank you