Did Lindsay Clancy’s Providers Create the Crisis?

Nine psychiatric medications. Eight prescribed in a three-week span. Telehealth-only appointments with a psychiatrist who never met her patient in person. No coordinated care plan. And a healthcare system that, according to two separate civil lawsuits, failed to diagnose a mother spiraling into postpartum psychosis.

Patrick Clancy filed a wrongful death suit in January 2026. Lindsay Clancy filed a medical malpractice complaint two days later. Both name the same providers — Dr. Jennifer Tufts, nurse practitioners Rebecca Jollotta and Julie Paul, therapist Lateisha Dukes, Aster Mental Health, and South Shore Health.

The criminal trial at Plymouth Superior Co...