Tufts in the Clancy postpartum case: a key psychiatric care witness

The Boston Globe outlines Dr. Jennifer Tufts, a perinatal psychiatrist affiliated with Aster Mental Health, as one of the first clinicians to treat Lindsay Clancy for postpartum anxiety and a potential witness in Clancy’s high-profile murder trial. Clancy began seeing Tufts in Sept. 2022, and Tufts prescribed multiple medications in the months before the 2023 killings, including Zoloft, Ativan, Benadryl, Valium, Buspirone, and Amitriptyline; Tufts is named in civil lawsuits alleging overprescribing and misdiagnosis. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale score at the first appointment was 23, illustrating the severity of her condition. The article notes it’s not unusual for care providers to adjust medications during postpartum treatment and emphasizes that comments from Tufts or Aster Mental Health have not been provided. The trial is expected to consider the context of medical treatment in postpartum mental health as witnesses testify.