S9 | Diagnosis of a Crime | Ep 4: The Americans
DELVE28 Okt 2025

S9 | Diagnosis of a Crime | Ep 4: The Americans

It’s been described as career-ending for New Zealand doctors to go up against the Starship Children’s Hospital experts, so the Delve team takes this investigation international.


As mentioned in the episode, here is a link to the 2017 Swedish SBU report into Shaken Baby Syndrome: https://ncip.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/SBU-report-2017.pdf

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