Award Winning Work

Exposed
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Exposed

He was a trusted OB-GYN working inside one of the most prestigious universities in the world, an Ivy League school that is home to Nobel Prize winners and medical all-stars. Yet behind closed doors, Dr. Robert Hadden assaulted hundreds — perhaps thousands — of unsuspecting patients. When it looked like no one would be held accountable, the survivors engaged in a decade-long fight for justice.

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Bad Batch
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Bad Batch

Patients in search of a miracle cure end up in critical condition. The race is on to find out what went wrong before more people get hurt. The trail leads back to a medical company with slick marketing and a charismatic CEO. And to a multibillion dollar stem cell industry where greed and desperation collide.

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How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years
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How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years

ProPublica, September 2023

Also published in New York Magazine

The university’s own records show that women repeatedly tried to warn Columbia doctors and staff about Hadden. At least twice, the fact that Hadden’s bosses in the OB-GYN department knew of the women’s concerns was acknowledged in writing. They allowed him to continue practicing.

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A Surgeon So Bad It Was Criminal
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A Surgeon So Bad It Was Criminal

ProPublica, October 2018

It took more than six months and multiple catastrophic surgeries before anyone reported Duntsch to the state medical board. Then it took almost another year for the board to investigate, with Duntsch operating all the while.

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Does Your Period Have to Be This Bad?
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Does Your Period Have to Be This Bad?

Cosmopolitan, December 2015

As many as 30 percent of gynecological patients overall are suffering severe, recurring period pain, according to a study released in August. And when symptoms are treated, the standard advice has changed little in three decades. It is one of the most significant health problems for which there is almost no public discussion and little research.

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Error: What's Wrong With Robotic Surgery
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Error: What's Wrong With Robotic Surgery

Men’s Health, May 2014

It does sound promising: precision machines displacing fallible human beings, operating in the most sensitive areas. But a growing number of practitioners worry that the robot revolution came before the advantages were proven, and that marketing, not medicine, has led the charge. Others question whether the astronomical price of these robots (ultimately added to your rising insurance premium) justifies their uncertain benefits in an era of runaway health costs.

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Who Killed Chris Kyle?
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Who Killed Chris Kyle?

Men’s Health, December 2013

The deadliest sniper in U.S. military history was gunned down at point-blank range, apparently by a troubled soldier he was trying to help. A broken VA medical system may have been an unwitting accomplice.

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