2023 Review: 🩺 Our investigation into a doctor with a troubling past

Readers help fund our investigations - we’re counting on you. [View this email in a browser.]( [Gothamist Logo] [Year in Review: Imminent Danger]( Gothamist Reader, This is Ave Carrillo, executive producer of the daily podcast [NYC Now]( from Gothamist and WNYC, and Christopher Werth, the investigative editor in our newsroom. [We’re writing to ask a favor.]( Over the past year, we’ve worked on a multi-part investigative series called [Imminent Danger: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women](. It examines an OB-GYN named Thomas J. Byrne, whose New York medical license was revoked in the 1990s over what state officials called gross negligence and gross incompetence, among other charges. Three babies died under his care, according to a state investigation. Two others were severely injured. Now, Byrne is back practicing in New York after the state restored his license, despite an ongoing track record of malpractice lawsuits and disciplinary measures by hospitals in other states. Until recently, he was at Harlem Hospital, where he was named in two malpractice lawsuits. In one, a 34-year-old mother died shortly after giving birth. In another, a baby was lacerated during a cesarean section. We spent months working with reporter Karen Shakerdge, meticulously poring over public documents to find out why New York decided to restore his license and to look more broadly at how doctors are vetted here and in other states to ensure patient safety. As you might imagine, this reporting work takes time and resources. Stories like our Imminent Danger series are part of our promise to you to dig into issues that affect New Yorkers. So here’s where the favor comes in: [we need your support]( to continue this kind of reporting. [I Support Gothamist]( Gothamist and WNYC are part of a non-profit newsroom funded by listeners and readers. [End-of-year donations]( are especially critical to organizations like ours. Your contribution will help us [continue ambitious reporting]( that shines a light on our state and local governments that few other newsrooms take the time to scrutinize. We appreciate your support, Ave & Christopher P.S. We Almost Forgot… Donating by December 31st , gets you our newest Gothamist T-shirt as a special thank-you gift. [Please give what you can.]( [YES! I Want the Shirt]( [New York Public Radio] [WNYC]( | [WQXR]( | [NJPR]( | [GOTHAMIST]( [WNYC STUDIOS]( | [THE GREENE SPACE]( Copyright © New York Public Radio. All rights reserved. 160 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013 [TERMS OF USE]( You can update your [PREFERENCES]( or [UNSUBSCRIBE]( from this list.