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What’s the harm of “better safe than sorry” in cases where abuse is ambiguous? One mother’s story is our answer to that question.
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One pediatrician’s path to Pennsylvania, and the rise of a powerful new field in child medicine.
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The story of how this extraordinary situation in the Lehigh Valley came to light — because it almost didn’t.
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In the summer of 2023, reporter Dyan Neary received a tip about a problematic doctor in Pennsylvania. Families were claiming that when they sought medical care for their children, this pediatrician falsely accused them of abuse, and their children we... more
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Apple Podcasts5Jmewoof
United States41 hours ago - Own up to the gaps in your investigation.
I loved The Retrievals and so much other Serial reporting. But The Preventionist seems like lazy journalism. It misrepresents what medical child abuse is. No where does Neary even acknowledge that she’s telling only the parents’ version of the story. Unless the parents sign a HIPAA release, theirs is the only side that gets publicly shared. You have to at least own up to the gaps in your investigation.
Apple Podcasts1SM7705United States2 days ago - Munchausen expert needed
So much is missing in “The Preventionist” season of Serial, apart from investigative journalism generally, but a single expert on Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another/Munchausen by Proxy medical child abuse being interviewed on the record would alone have been a massive corrective to the omissions in this opinion piece, which gives so much air time to people who have fairly convincingly been abusing their children.
Apple Podcasts1boxy524United States4 days ago - The Preventionist.
Do not listen to this show without doing your own research/ fact checking. The reporting is biased and poorly evidenced. Parents’ perspectives are prioritised over those of vulnerable children. Experienced and highly skilled professionals, from many fields, but most significantly child protection medicine,are presented as having both agenda and incentive, again without evidence.
This is highly concerning and sets a dangerous precedent.
Apple Podcasts1Braziershaw
United Kingdom4 days ago - What a joke
the most recent season is completely slanted "reporting", what a horrible decline in quality from the first season. they did not talk to experts instead its just a hit piece to try to promote "parents rights" while doing only the bare minimum of investigating
Apple Podcasts1insidious bladeUnited States7 days ago
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