What Lindsay Clancy's Doctors Did After Her Husband's Warning

Patrick Clancy told his wife's doctors she was becoming someone he didn't recognize. Lindsay Clancy was on Seroquel, he said, and it was making her ten thousand times worse. The providers treating her didn't pull back. They raised the dose. Weeks later, she killed their three children in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. She is now standing trial in Plymouth, and neither side disputes what happened that day — only whether she was criminally responsible for it. On this episode, Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Night Bird, to trace the full arc of Lindsay Clancy's care before the trial now playing out in Plymouth. Providers had allegedly documented intrusive thoughts around the same period Lindsay was describing a male voice commanding her to hurt her children — two very different clinical pictures that got treated as interchangeable. A forensic evaluation after the deaths finally produced a diagnosis, Bipolar I, that her treatment team had considered but never confirmed while it could still change the outcome. In four months, she was put on thirteen medications — benzodiazepines, antidepressants, an antipsychotic, a sedative — with almost no coordination between the five providers involved. She called a suicide hotline and was turned away for lacking a specific plan. She waited three days inside McLean Hospital before a doctor saw her. Shavaun lays out what a family member's warning is supposed to trigger inside a treatment team, why it so often doesn't, and what a seventeen-minute appointment can and cannot catch in a patient this far into crisis. She also weighs in on where the line falls between a missed diagnosis and a system that was never built to catch one.
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