Hey everybody, this is Nancy Solomon, reporter and host of Dead End.

I'm popping in here to share a really compelling story my colleagues in the WNYC Newsroom

have been working on for the better part of a year now.

It's a five-part investigation called Eminent Danger,

one doctor and a trail of injured women.

The doctor in question, Thomas J. Byrne, has what New York State officials have described

as a record of negligence and incompetence.

Christopher Wirth, the editor of the series gets us started.

He's an OBGYN who currently works at a clinic in the Bronx that's run by St. Barnabas.

But until fairly recently, he was practicing at Harlem Hospital where he was named as a defendant in two

malpractice lawsuits. The fact that Dr. Byrne is practicing in New York at all is in

itself remarkable because New York had at one time revoked

his medical license.

This was after health department officials investigated a string of bad outcomes under his care, but that obviously, you know, was not the end of his medical career.

He was able to obtain medical licenses in other states just about a year after New York made it impossible for him to practice here.

He went on to work in New Mexico and Oklahoma.

And then in 2014, New York restored his medical license in the state.

Over the course of his roughly 40-year career, Byrne has had at least 23 malpractice claims

filed against him. That's far more than the average OBGYN,

according to studies by the American Medical Association and others, which put that

number between one and three.

The first episode in this series focused on one case in particular that raises questions

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