Introducing: Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Robert Hadden was a trusted OB-GYN at Columbia University. Friendly, caring, unassuming... and behind the closed door of exam rooms, one of the most prolific sexual predators in New York City. During his 25-year career, he assaulted hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients, under the guise of medical exams. Those who tried to warn Columbia were ignored or not believed. When it appeared that no one — not Hadden, not Columbia — would be held to account, it was the survivors who undertook a decade-long fight for justice. From Wondery, Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University is a story about power: who has it, who loses it, and what it takes to get it back. Follow Exposed on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen ad-free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app. Listen to Exposed: Wondery.fm/WWTL_EXPOSED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dr. Robert Haddon was the kind of OB-GYN you recommended to your best friend.
0:12.9	Calm, knowledgeable, greeted everyone with a smile.
0:17.8	But his cheerful demeanor hid an ugly truth.
0:22.2	Dr. Robert Haddon was found to be a sexual predator who abused hundreds, potentially
0:29.1	thousands of patients over his decades-long career.
0:35.2	Once these stories began to see the light of day, one question remained, how was this
0:40.8	physician who was trusted with the lives of so many, able to get away with this for
0:46.5	so long?
0:48.7	When the powerful institution he worked for was confronted with these accusations, did
0:55.0	it actually choose to protect its own reputation?
1:00.1	Exposed, cover up at Columbia University, the new podcast from Wondry is a story about
1:07.5	people who are supposed to protect us, physicians, prosecutors, and the people around them.
1:15.4	And it asks, how did these institutions fail?
1:20.0	What does it say about our system?
1:22.0	That a doctor from a prestigious institution was better protected than dozens of patients.
1:28.9	And how do we seek justice and accountability in the future when it takes a small army
1:35.1	to bring down just one egregious abuser?
1:38.6	I'm about to play a clip from Exposed, cover up at Columbia University.
1:45.8	Just a heads up, this episode contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault.
2:07.3	We felt it was important to include these details, to understand the reality of what
2:11.3	survivors experience, but as you'll see, this is a story about much more than that.
2:16.9	If you or someone you know is a survivor of sexual assault, you're not alone, and
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