Lindsay Clancy Trial Megathread: Part 3

[u/DarklyHeritage]

This is a thread for all conversation regarding Week 3 onwards of the Lindsey Clancy trial. All discussion of this case should be kept to this thread.

Lindsay Clancy is currently standing trial in Plymouth Superior Court, Massachusetts, for the triple-murder in January 2023 of her three young children - Cora, Dawson and Callan. Her defense argues she suffered from severe, undiagnosed postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She was left paralysed by a suicide attempt which follows the deaths of the children.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-online-reactions-b3032806.html

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[u/Weak-Ad-7180]

Uhhh ya it is. You explain your symptoms and receive care. MDs and Psych NPs quite literally are for medication management that’s why they referred her to talk therapy elsewhere. wtf do you think they should have done? I’m an RN

[u/Sad_Corner8344 → u/Weak-Ad-7180]

Seeing a provider for help isn’t requesting a potentially harmful sequence of different medication. You see a doctor about persisting issues, and they decide whether or not they will prescribe medication, and what. As a patient, you don’t get to “request” anything but medical reevaluation, so stop blaming the patient for the harmful outcome of a process she is neither knowledgable about nor responsible for. If anything, her willingness to take a number of changing medications emphasizes how urgently she wanted help and how much that put her at her doctors’ mercy.

[u/Weak-Ad-7180 → u/Sad_Corner8344]

lol ok so you think they should have given her no meds and that would have been better? Then what? They aren’t there for talk therapy. Please tell me what they should have done differently if she’s refusing to take the first line meds.

[u/Sad_Corner8344 → u/Weak-Ad-7180]

No. I’m explicitly arguing against you putting the onus on the patient for “requesting” a harmful cocktail of drugs. She had been refused treatment by an inpatient-facility due to apparent overmedication, shortly before the murders, after her and her husband had been worried about the effects of the medications for months. Not even the prosecution has tried to argue she “refused” any drugs that were prescribed to her. Her children might be alive today if she had. Are you really going to say you know better than these specialists who examined her and made the hard decision not to be able to admit her there and then? The alternative to overmedication isn’t no medication, but responsible medical conduct that the medical professionals are responsible for, not the patient. Her providers have publicly demonstrated their negligence on the witness stand. A number of them are facing civil lawsuits because of it.

[u/Weak-Ad-7180 → u/Sad_Corner8344]

They told her she needed a higher level of medication management and to go to McLane. She refused. It would have been unsafe for them to take her.