This is Sarah Koenig, here to tell you we've got a new show. It's called The Preventionist,

and it's about doctors, mostly about this one doctor, whose job was to prevent child abuse,

to identify abuse and reduce harm to children. But time after time, her diagnoses and the

prevention she recommended, rather than curing a problem, seemed to be causing fresh damage.

Diane Neary is the reporter on this one. She's based in Pennsylvania, and she got a tip about

parents complaining in the Lehigh Valley, so she went to check it out, and it was nuts what was

happening in the hospital there. In three episodes, Diane tells the story of this one doctor's controversial career

and how it all came to a head in the Lehigh Valley.

In the final episode, Diane's reporting gets at something rare,

the real-time experience of a mother trying to reconstruct her family of five children

after years of court-ordered separation.

It's affecting in a way I'd never heard before.

The show's coming out October 30th.

For New York Times subscribers, all episodes are out now.

Just search The Preventionist on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

You can become a New York Times subscriber and support our journalism, plus get access to

exclusive content like this series before anyone else, by visiting n.y times.com slash

subscription slash audio. Okay, I hope you'll listen. Here's the trailer.

It's August 2023, a county government meeting in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley.

A young woman, early 20s, steps up to the mic to speak.

She's got a story to tell. She has five minutes.

My two-month-old son was happily drinking milk from his bottle when he quickly started choking,

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