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BONUS: Unabridged Interview with Bea Yorker

2024/9/5
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Bea Yorker, a retired professor of nursing, criminal justice, and criminalistics, shares her journey into the field of Munchausen by Proxy. Her interest began while working at a pediatric hospital, sparked by a case and a Roy Meadows article detailing a mother's deceptive practices. This ignited her fascination with the complexities of medical child abuse.
  • Bea Yorker's interest in Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) stemmed from a case involving a child with bleeding ears, initially suspected as MBP but later diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder.
  • A Roy Meadows article, detailing a case where a mother contaminated her child's urine samples with her own blood, further fueled Yorker's interest in MBP.
  • Yorker's initial exposure to MBP coincided with her time in law school and pregnancy with her third child.

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Law professor, nurse, and president of Munchausen Support, Bea Yorker, shares what first got her interested in working with Munchausen by proxy cases, and remembers the first time she was exposed to medical child abuse. She recounts how she first met Jo in the Munchausen by proxy Committee of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. Bea and Andrea talk through the positive psychological effects of peer support groups for those coping with trauma and how to create a safe space for survivors to help each other.  


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