Listen Now – Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University

American Scandal

Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, History Daily, American History Tellers, Lindsay Graham

4.6 • 18.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 11 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.

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0:00.0	Dr. Robert Haddon was the kind of OB-GYN you'd recommend to your best friend.
0:05.0	Calm, knowledgeable, and greeting everyone with a smile, but his cheerful demeanor hid an ugly truth.
0:10.0	Dr. Haddon was found to be a serial predator who abused hundreds and potentially thousands of patients over his decades-long career.
0:18.0	Once these stories began to see the light of day, one question remained, how did this physician who was trusted with the lives of so many get away with this for so long?
0:28.0	When the powerful institution he worked for was confronted with these accusations,
0:32.0	did it choose to protect its own reputation over the safety of patients?
0:36.0	Exposed, cover up at Columbia University is the new podcast from Wondery and Dr. Death's Laura Beal.
0:42.0	It's a story about people who are supposed to protect us, physicians, prosecutors, and the people around them.
0:48.0	And it asks, did these institutions provide cover for a known predator?
0:53.0	What does it say about our system that a doctor from a prestigious institution was better protected than dozens of patients?
0:59.0	And how do we seek justice and accountability in the future when it takes a small army to bring down just one egregious abuser?
1:06.0	You're about to hear a clip from exposed, cover up at Columbia University.
1:10.0	Listen to exposed on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.0	You can listen to exposed ad free on Wondery Plus, join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts today.
1:22.0	Just a heads up, this episode contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault.
1:27.0	We felt it was important to include these details to understand the reality of what survivors experience.
1:33.0	But as you'll see, this is a story about much more than that.
1:37.0	If you or someone you know is a survivor of sexual assault, you're not alone and will share a list of resources at the end of the episode.
1:45.0	Please take care while listening.
1:52.0	Just after lunch, one Friday afternoon, Laurie Kaniak walked into a Columbia University Medical Center on the upper east side of Manhattan.
2:07.0	She was here for a postpartum exam. She stepped into the elevator and went up to her obstetricians office.
2:15.0	When it was her turn to be seen, a nurse showed her to the exam room and took her vitals.
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