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Christopher Werth retweeted
“It just makes me mad that he could do that and get away with it,” says John Henries. His son, Matthew, died at age three after being born with a brain injury due to the malpractice of Dr. Thomas J. Byrne.
Grantees @KarenShakerdge & @c_werth for @Gothamist.bit.ly/46mF7nU
ALT John Henries holding his son Matthew. The New York health department concluded Byrne had used a vacuum extractor excessively when he delivered Matthew. Image courtesy of John Henries.
Christopher Werth retweeted
This A.M., we heard from @KarenShakerdge and @c_werth who discussed their new @WNYC podcast “Imminent Danger." In it, they uncover a system that allows doctors who've harmed patients to evade punishment, putting patients in harm's way. wnyc.org/story/when-patient-…
Christopher Werth retweeted
This series and podcast is incredible.
Donita initially trusted Dr. Byrne. That would change after she gave birth.
She was one of 11 patients the state of New York would later determine were harmed under his care.
Listen to this podcast by grantees @KarenShakerdge & @c_werth for @WNYC. pulitzercenter.org/stories/p…
Christopher Werth retweeted
In 1990, New York revoked the license of Dr. Thomas J. Byrne, an OB-GYN, after considering him an “imminent danger.”
How did he regain his medical license and practice again?
Story by grantees @MoNscience, @KarenShakerdge, & @c_werth for @Gothamist. 👉 bit.ly/3tMc6o3
ALT A letter: A 1990 notice from the New York Department of Health identifying an OB-GYN named Thomas J. Byrne an "imminent danger" and announcing that his license had been suspended. Image courtesy of Gothamist.
Christopher Werth retweeted
Donita initially trusted Dr. Byrne. That would change after she gave birth.
She was one of 11 patients the state of New York would later determine were harmed under his care.
Listen to this podcast by grantees @KarenShakerdge & @c_werth for @WNYC. pulitzercenter.org/stories/p…
Christopher Werth retweeted
In 1991, New York health officials declared Dr. Thomas J. Byrne, an OB-GYN, an “imminent danger” to the public and stripped him of his medical license. Yet Byrne is still seeing patients today.
A podcast by grantees @KarenShakerdge and @c_werth for @WNYC. pulitzercenter.org/stories/p…
Christopher Werth retweeted
A little side project I’ve been working on for a long time is finally out. Imminent Danger. It's a five part @WNYC investigative series about an OB/GYN who has managed to practice in multiple states for decades despite revoked licenses, continued allegations of negligence + more
Christopher Werth retweeted
Part 1 of Gothamist's and WNYC's new five-part investigative series Imminent Danger examines the track record of one OB-GYN across several states and what it says about how doctors are vetted before being allowed to treat patients. gothamist.com/news/one-docto…
Christopher Werth retweeted
Powerful, disturbing new series by @KarenShakerdge w/ @c_werth and @MoNscience on the injuries and death caused by one OBGYN whose license was revoked in NY but who still managed to practice in other states before returning to work at Harlem Hospital gothamist.com/news/one-docto…
NYC’s new black market for short-term rentals: A throwback to the time before Airbnb gothamist.com/news/nycs-new-… via @DavidFBrand
Insurance companies routinely deny NYC buildings with subsidized tenants gothamist.com/news/insurance… via @DavidFBrand
Christopher Werth retweeted
Unbelievable Story Alert ‼️
NYPD sergeant drove from his Long Island home every week to his old block in Brooklyn & littered thousands of pages of paper — old pornos, a Poe novel, etc. — under cover of darkness.
Why??
No one knows.
Punished??
He was docked 1 vacation day.
Every Sunday morning for 4 years, residents of a block in Greenpoint woke up to hundreds of sheets of paper dumped on their street.
TV guides, Bibles, 70’s porn mags.
The serial litterer was a NYPD sergeant.
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Christopher Werth retweeted
This is one weird-ass story.
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Greenpoint mystery solved: serial litterer was NYPD sergeant gothamist.com/news/greenpoin… via @BaharOstadan
Christopher Werth retweeted
Where is the Dyson vacuum?!? gothamist.com/news/nyc-campa…
NYPD officers accused of wrongdoing can now watch all relevant video of an incident before speaking to investigators gothamist.com/news/nypd-offi… via @samanthaellimax
NYPD to share internal records with agency investigating racial profiling. Some say it's not enough. gothamist.com/news/nypd-to-s… via @samanthaellimax
A story in which @ClaytonGuse and @s_nessen give away pizza on the subway gothamist.com/news/a-48-bill… via @gothamist
