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Malia Politzer is the executive editor of piqd.com, and an award-winning long-form journalist based out of Spain. She specializes in reporting on migration, international development, human rights issues and investigative reporting.
Originally from California, she's lived in China, Spain, Mexico and India, and reported from various countries in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Her primary beats relate to immigration, economics and international development. She has published articles in Huffington Post Highline, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue India, Mint, Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Policy, Reason Magazine, and the Phoenix New Times. She is also a regular contributor to Devex.
Her Huffington Post Highline series, "The 21st Century Gold Rush" won awards from the National Association of Magazine Editors, Overseas Press Club, and American Society of Newspaper Editors. She's also won multiple awards for feature writing in India and the United States.
Her reporting has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Institute For Current World Affairs, and the Global Migration Grant.
Degrees include a BA from Hampshire College and MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where was a Stabile Fellow at the Center for Investigative Journalism.
Podcast: Dr. Death—A Deep Dive Into One Neurosurgeon's Medical Malpractice
This series is an in-depth investigation into the medical malpractice of one Dallas-based neurosurgeon: Dr. Christopher Duntsch.
Based on the investigative reporting of medical journalist Laura Beil, this podcast unfolds like a mystery thriller. It starts by introducing the damage that Dr. Duntsch has inflicted on his patients—for example, a patient who went in for chronic back pain, and after surgery, was never able to walk again. In another case, Dr. Duntsch lost a screw in a patient's body, then—upon finding it—drilled the screw into the patient's spine repeatedly, leading to heavy blood loss, permanent incontinence, paralysis, and eventually—death.
Dr. Duntsch was fired from the hospital where the death took place. But then he was hired by another, and another, and another. As the horrendous incidents of malpractice piled up (which grossly affected the lives of 33 patients), the first episode teases out some probing and terrifying questions: Is Dr. Duntsch simply inept? Is he a sociopath? Or perhaps he's not really a doctor at all—perhaps he's an imposter.
Storytelling at its finest, this podcast will pull you in—and make you want to binge the entire series.
This podcast, was phenomenal. Completely captures the listener upon pushing play. The writing, production, and delivery are top notch. But let's be honest, that this is actually happening, has happened, makes it such a mind blowing listen it's like crack for your ears.