Introducing: Nobody Should Believe Me — The Catalyst | EP 1

About this episode

The episode revisits the case of Maya Kowalski and the surrounding controversy of medical child abuse and a family's lawsuit against a hospital.

Welcome to Season Seven of Nobody Should Believe Me. Andrea revisits the case of Maya Kowalski—the story at the center of the Netflix film Take Care of Maya–and the family’s high-profile lawsuit against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. What became widely framed as a story about “medical kidnapping” began when hospital staff reported suspected medical child abuse after Maya arrived with a history of extreme ketamine treatments.  How did a case of horrific abuse become a story about evil doctors kidnapping children? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• medical child abuse
• family lawsuit
• medical kidnapping
• true crime
• Netflix film
• hospital ethics

Keywords

• Maya Kowalski
• medical kidnapping
• Johns Hopkins
• child abuse
• Take Care of Maya
• lawsuit
• ketamine treatments

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

Books & works: Take Care of Maya

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