Lindsay Clancy has filed a lawsuit for personal injury and loss of arising from “the catastrophic failure of multiple medical providers to properly diagnose, treat, and monitor Lindsay’s severe postpartum psychiatric condition, despite her repeated, desperate pleas for help and her family’s persistent efforts to obtain adequate care.”
The lawsuit alleges, in part:
Lindsay Clancy did everything a mother in her situation could do. She recognized something was wrong with her. She sought medical treatment. She went to emergency rooms. She called crisis hotlines. She admitted herself to hospitals. She took the medications prescribed to her. She communicated her worsening symptoms to her providers. She told them the medications were making her worse. Her husband advocated for her. Her family drove from out of state to help care for her children. And still, the medical system failed her completely.
The Defendants—Jennifer A. Tufts, M.D. (“Dr. Tufts”), Rebecca H. Jollotta, C.N.P. (“Nurse Jollotta”), Aster Mental Health Inc. (“Aster”), South Shore Health System, Inc. (“South Shore’), McLean Hospital (“McLean”), and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (“Women & Infants”)—each failed to properly diagnose Lindsay’s bipolar disorder with postpartum onset and instead subjected her to a disorganized, uncoordinated course of polypharmacy that exacerbated her condition and precipitated a severe psychotic break.
Lindsay’s clinical course was “significantly complicated by polypharmacy and the involvement of multiple prescribers, which, in effect, obscured an accurate diagnosis and appropriate intervention and treatment,” even though Lindsay did all that she could to obtain the appropriate treatment.
The psychotropic medications Lindsay received appear to have paradoxically exacerbated her underlying psychiatric vulnerability, precipitating a state of manic psychosis characterized by compelling command hallucinations. The tragedy that followed was the direct and proximate result of the Defendants’ collective negligence in failing to recognize obvious warning signs, coordinate care, properly diagnose Lindsay’s condition, and provide treatment that met the applicable standard of care.
As a direct result of Defendants’ negligence, Lindsay suffered catastrophic physical injuries, including permanent paralysis, and she lost her three beloved children—Cora Marie Clancy, Dawson William Clancy, and Callan Patrick Clancy. Lindsay now faces a lifetime of physical disability, psychological trauma, and the unbearable grief of waking up every day knowing she killed her children—all of which could have been prevented had Defendants provided competent medical care.
The lawsuit seeks “damages, including punitive damages as allowed by law, for the personal injuries suffered by Lindsay Clancy, including her physical injuries, psychological trauma, loss of consortium with her children and her spouse, and all other damages permitted by law, plus interest as allowed by law from the date of this Complaint, plus costs and attorneys’ fees.”
Lindsay Clancy is presently being tried criminally for the deaths of her three children.
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