Laura Beil
How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator for More Than 20 Years
For decades, patients warned Columbia about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden. One even called 911 and had him arrested. Columbia let him keep working.
by Bianca Fortis, ProPublica, and Laura Beil, photography by Hannah Whitaker for New York Magazine,
A Surgeon So Bad It Was Criminal
Christopher Duntsch’s surgical outcomes were so outlandishly poor that Texas prosecuted him for harming patients. Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating?
by Laura Beil, special to ProPublica,