When Patient Safety Falls by the Wayside
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Christopher Werth, senior investigations and narrative editor at WNYC and Gothamist, and journalist Karen Shakerdge discuss their new WNYC podcast, Imminent Danger, that tells the story of one doctor who was deemed an "imminent danger" in New York, but went on to practice elsewhere, and the gaps in the safeguards that are supposed to protect patients.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc. |
| 0:03.0 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:10.0 | It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.1 | Good morning again everyone. |
| 0:15.0 | Now we're going to spotlight some magnificent WNYC |
| 0:18.7 | investigative reporting on how doctors who lose their licenses can sometimes continue to practice anyway. |
| 0:27.0 | The story begins in the early 1990s when one OBGYN in upstate New York was stripped of his license to practice medicine. |
| 0:35.8 | This after a state investigation found that he was a quote imminent danger after a series of grave outcomes for mothers and babies in his care. |
| 0:44.0 | But this doctor then went on to practice elsewhere and eventually regained his license here in New York. |
| 0:51.0 | So WNYC's got this investigative podcast series called |
| 0:55.6 | imminent danger taking the story of this doctor and his patients in order to |
| 1:00.9 | examine the gaps and the safeguards that are supposed to hold medical professionals accountable and protect patients |
| 1:07.6 | systemically. So joining me now to discuss their reporting are Christopher Wirth |
| 1:12.0 | senior investigations and narrative editor here at |
| 1:15.3 | WNYC and Gothamist, and journalist Karen Schakurgi who reported out the series, all five |
| 1:21.1 | episodes of imminent danger produced in partnership with |
| 1:23.7 | a Pulitzer Center are available now wherever you get your podcast so Karen |
| 1:28.1 | welcome to WNYC and Chris always good to have you on the show. |
| 1:31.6 | Thank you. Good to be back. And Chris always good to have you on the show. |
| 1:32.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:33.2 | Good to be back. |
| 1:34.2 | And before we start, we'll just give listeners a heads up. |
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