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Do No Harm

Wondery | NBC News

News, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Bright thinks she's living every parent's worst nightmare when her five-month-old baby tumbles from a lawn chair and hits his head on the driveway. But after she rushes him to the hospital, a new nightmare begins.The Brights are thrust into a medical and legal system so focused on protecting children from abuse, it has targeted innocent parents. With exclusive audio captured as the events unfolded, this harrowing six-episode series takes you inside the Brights' fight to hold their family together, against a system that can sometimes do more harm than good. Hosted by NBC News National Investigative Reporter Mike Hixenbaugh, Do No Harm is a co-production of NBC News and Wondery.

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0:00.0	I don't know.
0:07.0	Imagine you're a new parent and your baby is in serious danger.
0:13.8	I didn't know, you know, it was my child dead.
0:17.1	It's my child passed out.
0:19.1	What do I do when a child passes out?
0:21.0	You tried to wake him, but nothing is working.
0:24.3	So the only thing that I could think about in that moment was to get help.
0:28.6	You rushed to the hospital.
0:29.6	I just kept saying, look, please be okay.
0:32.3	You hope and pray that he'll be alright.
0:36.1	That the doctors will be able to make him better.
0:39.1	Then one of the staff pulls you aside.
0:42.4	A woman came in, normal clothes, no scrubs, no nothing like that.
0:47.6	She wants to talk to you alone.
0:50.0	We get down the hallway, she closes the door.
0:54.6	And that's when the real nightmare begins.
0:57.6	And at this point, it did not dawn on me that they were accusing me of child abuse.
1:04.7	From NBC News and Wondery, the makers of Dirty John, Dr. Death and the Shrink Next Door
1:10.5	comes a news story.
1:12.1	Do no harm.
1:13.6	About innocent children and the adults who are supposed to keep them safe.
1:21.5	Terrible for the family, for the child, because it shouldn't have happened.
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