Nobody Is Asking Lindsay Clancy's Doctors Anything

Nobody is prosecuting the people who wrote the prescriptions. In the Lindsay Clancy trial, her treatment history is evidence against her, and the state's opening framed her as the one who worked the system.

Tony Brueski takes that to psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, thirty years across private practice, community mental health, crisis teams, and forensic programs, for the institutional version of this case.

Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham told jurors that Clancy manipulated her doctors and sought a quick and easy fix. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington told the same jurors she wanted off the drugs entirely and had no motive. Her separate malpractice suit alleges the medications she received worsened her condition and that her care was scattered across prescribers with nobody coordinating it.

The Boston Globe reported the record shows thirteen psychiatric medications in four months, prescribed by psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, emergency department doctors, and inpatient staff.

So one reading is a patient gaming her providers. The other is a system that kept writing scripts and never assembled the picture. This episode is about which one the evidence actually describes, and about who gets protected when the word manipulated does the work in an opening statement.

Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan. She does not deny killing them. The case turns on criminal responsibility.

Scott also works through why postpartum psychosis does not appear as its own diagnosis in the DSM, and what that absence does to expert testimony once both sides put clinicians in front of a jury. Roughly two dozen countries have a statute written for this exact situation. The United States has none, which leaves this jury sorting it out with the tools of an ordinary murder trial.

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