One Year: 1990 - The Angry Death of Kimberly Bergalis

Before 1990, there had never been a documented case of a patient
getting HIV from a health care worker. Kimberly Bergalis changed
that. Her claim that she’d been infected by her dentist would
captivate and terrify the country. And the dentist, David Acer,
would be made into a villain without America ever knowing who he
really was. This episode was written by Kelly Jones and Josh Levin,
One Year’s editorial director. One Year’s senior producer is Evan
Chung. This episode was produced by Kelly Jones and Evan Chung,
with additional production by Olivia Briley.  It was edited by
Joel Meyer and Derek John, Slate’s executive producer of narrative
podcasts. Merritt Jacob is senior technical director. We had mixing
help from Kevin Bendis. We had production help this season from
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