Did Lindsay Clancy's Doctors Know She Was Getting Worse?

Everyone around Lindsay Clancy saw her getting worse. Her husband saw it and said so, directly to her doctors. The question this episode asks is simple: did the people treating her know, and if they did, why did they raise her medication instead of pulling back? She would go on to kill Cora, Dawson, and Callan, and both sides now agree on that fact — only her mental state at the time is in dispute. Tony Brueski is joined by psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Night Bird, to examine the treatment record behind Lindsay Clancy's ongoing murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, over the deaths of her children Cora, Dawson, and Callan in Duxbury. Shavaun starts with the diagnosis problem — providers allegedly logged intrusive thoughts at the same time Lindsay was reportedly describing a commanding voice telling her to harm her kids, two clinically distinct phenomena that got blurred together. It wasn't until after the killings that a forensic evaluation confirmed Bipolar I, a diagnosis her providers had weighed but never settled on. From there, the prescribing history: thirteen medications across four months, five different providers, and — according to the lawsuit — no coordinated review of any of it. Patrick Clancy told providers his wife was ten thousand times worse on Seroquel. They increased the dose. She called a suicide hotline and was screened out. She waited three days at McLean Hospital before seeing a doctor. Shavaun weighs in on how much of this was preventable, what a properly coordinated psychiatric team would have caught, and where the line falls between individual error and structural failure. It's the record the jury in Plymouth is being asked to sit with.
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