Why Lindsay Clancy's Discharge Was Signed By That Doctor

Lindsay Clancy walked out of McLean Hospital in January 2023. The psychiatrist who oversaw that discharge, Dr. Alia Goodheart, later testified no patient with that condition had ever come to her, and that she could not say how many postpartum depression patients she had seen in twenty years.

Her three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, died on January 24, 2023 in Duxbury. Her plea on all three counts is not guilty. Her attorney's position is that she was psychotic and not criminally responsible. The Commonwealth argues she understood what she was doing.

Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott spend part two on the clinicians and the record they left behind.

Goodheart testified she had no concerns about Clancy's safety or anyone else's, and that she had no reason to believe Clancy was not a reliable reporter. McLean obtained none of Clancy's prior psychiatric records.

Her outpatient psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, testified to the same gap from the other direction. She did not request records from Clancy's other providers and did not have her sign the releases that would have opened them. She testified she relied on Clancy to disclose what mattered. Fourteen appointments, all by video, none in person.

Shavaun addresses the detail that changes how all of this reads. Her career was spent in labor and delivery. She spoke the language, and it made her easier to believe.

The conversation also credits the care that worked. One psychiatric nurse practitioner gave Clancy her personal cell number and called her on a day off, and Clancy's own defense lawyer said she had done a good job.

Both named physicians deny liability.

Tufts completed her psychiatric residency in July 2022 and joined the practice the month before Clancy became her patient. Clancy located her online. Goodheart testified McLean staff contacted Patrick Clancy to corroborate his wife's reports, and that she knows patients sometimes minimize symptoms.

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