The Retrievals
Serial Productions & The New York TimesC-sections are the most frequently performed major surgeries in the world. So why do so many patients feel severe pain during them? Season 2 of the award-winning podcast “The Retrievals” is an investigation into this underreported problem — and the new effort to solve it. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app ... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 12 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Categories | True CrimeSociety & Culture | ||||
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Sometimes you can’t wait for research to tell you what to do — you just have to go ahead and do it. We get back on L&D with Clara, Mindy and Heather.
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Pain during a cesarean section isn’t a new problem. But for a long time, it’s been a hidden one. In England, a patient named Susanna not only brings the problem to doctors’ attention, but also tries to solve it.
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What went wrong with Clara’s delivery? And can Heather get doctors to talk about it?
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Clara is a labor and delivery nurse, so she has a pretty good idea of what to expect when she delivers her own twins at the same hospital where she works. But she wasn’t prepared for this.
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- Essential listening and something rare: a vision of what experts should look like
This is so done so well. Great reporting, narration, writing, editing, music, list goes on. Not only is it riveting and even-keeled, it gives me a vision, or hope, of a greater reality beyond medicine where people with power, and self-proclaimed experts got into those fields because they care. It was enlightening to see people who signed up for a job not thinking they are perfect and have all the answers. Rather, they are willing to be a part of a long tradition of progress. Season 2 showed me t... more
Apple Podcasts5Yuckful yucks
United States2 months ago - Whyyy
The voice and storytelling choices are massively annoying, like fingernails on a blackboard. It’s very hard to listen even though the subject is engrossing and worthwhile.
Apple Podcasts1LexieUSAUnited States2 months ago - Episode 1
I felt my C-section within mins after the initial incision. I was told to push through it and as soon as the baby was out I could be given stronger drugs. It was really painful but I was out of it as soon as I was given the stronger medication.
Apple Podcasts5BksapwUnited States2 months ago - Thank you
For amplifying such an important birth story. I had a c-section where everything went “smoothly” and it was still one of the hardest things I’ve ever endured. I feel for Clara and all other mothers. You are superheroes.
Apple Podcasts5Giulia710United States2 months ago - Excellent
I enjoyed the narrative style of this podcast that is so different from many others I have listened to. The topic was both fascinating and horrifying. I’m glad that they are shining the light on something that happens in medicine that needs to change. I had personally never heard of epidurals failing. Medicine needs to start listening to women.
Apple Podcasts5MLE56United States2 months ago
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Apple Podcasts | #135 | United States/True Crime |
Apple Podcasts | #179 |  Canada/True Crime |
Apple Podcasts | #236 |  United Kingdom/True Crime |
Apple Podcasts | #131 |  France/True Crime |
Apple Podcasts | #159 |  Australia/True Crime |
Apple Podcasts | #220 |  Germany/True Crime |
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