Why Lindsay Clancy's Psychiatrist Couldn't Count Her Own Patients

Dr. Alia Goodheart treated Lindsay Clancy at McLean Hospital. On cross-examination, she couldn't say how many patients with postpartum depression she'd seen across twenty years of practice, and acknowledged she doesn't believe she's ever treated a patient with postpartum psychosis at all. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke take listener questions on what that means for her testimony.
Goodheart, like Dr. Jennifer Tufts, Clancy's outpatient psychiatrist, testified she observed no signs of psychosis and had no idea Clancy called a crisis line twice, calls documented in Clancy's own civil filings. A separate prosecution witness, Dr. Sejal Shah, agreed on cross-examination that a person can communicate and make plans while in a state of psychosis and called Clancy an honest patient.
The conversation also covers Day 10 of the trial, when defense attorney Kevin Reddington spent hours cross-examining Tufts. He established that all fourteen of her appointments with Clancy happened over video, that she never spoke to Clancy's parents, and that she never asked Clancy to sign a release that would have opened her file from a separate perinatal clinic. He pressed her on a 2021 study linking thyroid function to postpartum psychosis she hadn't read and blood testing she declined to order. The prosecution countered that Clancy booked her own appointments and drove herself to an emergency room.
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and is presumed innocent unless the state proves its case. Support is available around the clock at 988.
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