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We Need To Talk About Lucy Letby

Peter Elston and Michael McConville

We Need To Talk About Lucy Letby is a podcast series hosted by statistician Peter Elston and retired doctor Michael McConville. Lucy Letby was a neonatal nurse at The Countess of C...

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Episode list

11

  • June 30, 2024

    53 min

    20. Magic Eye

    Hospital management finally learns of the extent of the increased mortality over the previous year or so, thouigh why they did not know earlier is a mystery. Immediately they decid...

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  • June 23, 2024

    50 min

    19. Toytown

    June 2016 proves to be a particularly frenetic month at The Circus of Chester. There is no essential medicine for a baby with haemophilia. 33 week triplets are admitted but do not ...

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  • June 16, 2024

    52 min

    18. Occam's Razor again and again. And again. And again.

    Michael and Peter continue to discuss Rachel Aviv's article in The New Yorker. They note how time and time again Countess consultants dismissed obvious explanations for deaths and ...

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  • June 9, 2024

    50 min

    17. Beyond baffling

    Babies A, C and D die in June 2015 and hospital consultants immediately identify an association with Lucy Letby. They did not associate the deaths with the acute pneumonia, phospho...

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  • June 7, 2024

    57 min

    15. New York, New York!

    The New Yorker publishes a 13 thousand word article about the holes in the Lucy Letby case. In episode 15, Michael and Peter discuss various aspects of the article, such as it havi...

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  • June 2, 2024

    55 min

    16. Victorian plumbing, Victorian medical care

    There is much in Rachel Aviv's New Yorker article to digest. In this episode Peter and Michael continue to discuss the piece, specifically what Aviv writes in relation to the 1970s...

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