What happens when a patient — who alleges harm by a doctor — files a complaint with the Mass. board of medicine?
It's not always clear. Their handling of complaints is a secretive process. More and more, they're protective of doctors.
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600 kids go missing from state care a year. These are the lost children of Massachusetts.
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"Like other outstanding podcasts that home in on local injustices, it raises our awareness of a wider systemic problem," the @newyorker.com critic wrote.
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Major drug case dismissed amid allegations of New Bedford police informant misconduct.
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The Globe is hiring a reporter to cover the health care, hospital, and life sciences industries in New England -- a huge beat tackling one of the biggest sectors in our region.
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Last week, we published Snitch City, a series and podcast investigating misconduct on New Bedford's police force and its history of misuse of confidential informants.
The city's mayor pushed back. And he's asked the FBI to examine the findings.
Our new investigation begins with the story of a veteran cop in New Bedford, Mass.
One night he stumbles onto an apparent robbery. The suspect? A colleague who claims he’s acting on a tip from an informant.
And that’s just the start.
Our new podcast begins on the docks of a Massachusetts city. It involves a rogue cop. A demand for drugs. A phrase he'd used again and again: “confidential informant.”
This secretive system in policing has a dark underside. We found it in New Bedford.
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Immensely excited about this... Coming soon.
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