Imminent Danger Ep 3: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Imminent Danger, a new series from NYC NOW, looks into the role state medical boards had in how one doctor was allowed to keep practicing despite consistently bad outcomes. Marquita Baird has kept a bootbox full of medical records on a shelf in her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma for over two decades in the hope that, someday, someone would ask about what happened after an OB-GYN named Thomas J. Byrne performed a hysterectomy on her in 1999. Shawnee was one of several areas where Byrne would practice in the years after losing his medical license in New York.
This is episode 3 of the series but you can listen to earlier episodes here:
Episode 1: Wrongful Death
Episode 2: License Revoked
New episodes come out every Saturday on the NYC Now feed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kai. |
| 0:09.6 | This week I want to share with you a powerful story from our friends at the podcast NYC now. |
| 0:16.8 | Visiting a doctor's office can be an extremely vulnerable experience. |
| 0:20.7 | It's hard to know what to do or who to talk to. |
| 0:24.0 | When you sense, are you know, something is off. |
| 0:27.7 | And that's the subject of this new investigative series. |
| 0:30.2 | It's called imminent danger, one doctor and a trail of injured women. |
| 0:35.6 | It's produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center and hosted by Christopher Worth, who |
| 0:39.9 | is the investigations editor in the newsroom at WNYC. |
| 0:44.1 | The series follows the story of an OBGYN who has allegedly injured women and babies for |
| 0:50.1 | decades, and OBGYN who is still seeing patients today. |
| 0:55.2 | The series begins in New York, but in this episode that I'm going to share listeners |
| 0:59.2 | are transported to Oklahoma. |
| 1:01.8 | It's the third episode of imminent danger, but you can check out all the other parts by |
| 1:06.6 | going to NYC now wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:10.2 | Okay, I'll turn it over to Christopher Worth. |
| 1:15.8 | Previously on imminent danger, we heard how an OBGYN named Thomas Burn lost his medical |
| 1:22.2 | license in New York in the early 90s after being found negligent by state authorities. |
| 1:28.2 | I remember saying to the nurses who were there, my peers saying, do you all understand |
| 1:34.6 | that this did not have to happen? |
| 1:36.6 | This was preventable. |
| 1:38.0 | If you're a physician and lose your license, nobody wants you. |
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