S1 E3: A Dog Person
Sick
WFYI/Side Effects Public Media
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What kind of doctor uses his own sperm to impregnate his patients?
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sick contains a few curse words and deals with sexual themes. Just keep that in mind if you have kids around. |
| 0:16.5 | Okay |
| 0:19.2 | Check check check. This is Jake. This is Jake. |
| 0:23.7 | Obviously really nervous. We can't quite see this house from where we are. We're at the end of his driveway |
| 0:28.8 | And my heart is starting to pound a little bit now that we're doing this. All right |
| 0:41.6 | Should we start walking? |
| 0:45.7 | So wait, what am I saying? So I'd like to go in my name is Jake with the FYI. I |
| 0:51.1 | left |
| 0:58.3 | No business over here. Oh, we're just gonna knock on the door. You're not from the door. You're not welcome here. You're to leave |
| 1:14.3 | We've spent months trying to get an interview with Dr. Donald Klein. He's almost 81 years old and retired now |
| 1:20.1 | But Klein used to be one of the most successful fertility specialists in Indiana. People called him the best of the best. |
| 1:27.1 | A few years ago, Klein was discovered to have deceived his patients in the 1970s and 80s instead of using donor sperm to help many women get pregnant |
| 1:36.0 | He used his own |
| 1:38.0 | We wanted to get his side of the story |
| 1:40.4 | We sent him emails and at first he did actually respond. He replied, please don't join others who do not know what really happened |
| 1:47.8 | Please call my lawyer and tell him what you'd like to do. I can't make any decisions, but he can't. We emailed Klein's attorney |
| 1:54.9 | Called him several times no response. So we wrote a letter to Klein directly and dropped it in his mailbox |
| 2:00.8 | We wrote so far the media has missed a big part of this story |
| 2:05.2 | Your true intentions when you intervened with these patients and who you are outside of this one aspect of your career |
| 2:12.3 | But he never called never wrote back |
| 2:14.9 | So finally we went to his house. We only made it to the edge of the driveway when we were stopped short |
| 2:24.9 | We've looked at some pictures and we're pretty sure that woman you heard is one of Klein's daughters |
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