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Podcast Notes: The Retrievals, Season 2 - Trailer Episode
Podcast Overview
- Title: The Retrievals
- Description: Investigates severe pain experienced by patients during C-sections, an underreported issue in the medical field, and explores new efforts to address it.
Episode Details
- Episode Title: Trailer: The Retrievals, Season 2
- Episode Description: The podcast delves into the surprising prevalence of pain during C-sections and highlights ongoing efforts to address this problem. The season is set to premiere on July 10th.
Key Themes and Concepts
- Severe Pain in C-sections:
- C-sections are among the most common major surgeries globally.
- A significant number of patients report feeling severe pain during the procedure.
- Patient Experiences:
- The host shares poignant listener feedback regarding their painful experiences during C-sections.
- An emphasis on the disconnect between patient pain and the medical staff's perception of normalcy concerning pain tolerance.
- Anecdotes and Testimonies:
- Listeners recount experiences of feeling the surgery and being told it was "just pressure" rather than pain.
- Emotional responses highlight the traumatic nature of these experiences, including descriptions of feeling organs being manipulated.
- Medical Community Awareness:
- Some healthcare professionals acknowledge the issue but express a general belief that severe pain is not typical.
- The tension between what patients experience and what providers communicate about pain management during surgeries.
Key Quotes
- "I could feel them taking my organs out and moving them."
- "It was major abdominal surgery without full anesthesia. Patients don’t know this happens. Doctors and nurses do."
Conclusion
- Host: Susan Burton
- Premiere Date: July 10th
- The podcast aims to shed light on the systemic issues surrounding pain management in C-sections and aims to give a voice to the experiences of affected patients.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00If you're listening to this, it might be because you heard a podcast series I made called The Retrievals. Sometimes when I meet people, they'll say, Oh, the one where the nurse stole fentanyl. Others don't mention the plot. They go straight for the theme. They know the podcast as the one where doctors thought it was normal for the women to be in pain. It doesn't matter if you haven't heard the retrievals. The details of that podcast are less important than the common experience it described. Pain a doctor didn't listen to. Pain a doctor didn't adequately treat. That resonated with many listeners, and hundreds of them, mostly women, began writing to me with their own stories.
0:44One afternoon, I opened a note that was unlike any I'd received so far. The listener described something that was so shocking that I thought what she experienced must have been singular, an anomaly, a mistake. Then, within a day or two, I opened two more of these notes describing similar experiences. Soon I understood that this was a subject that would come up again and again. I was rushed into the C-section. My husband was there and I could feel them starting the operation. I could feel the incision. And the doctor asked me, do you feel pressure? And I said, no, I feel everything. And everybody kept telling me, oh, you know, you're just feeling a lot of pressure.
1:24And I was like, no, I'm pretty sure this is just pain. And they said, well, that's not possible. You know, if you were feeling it, you would pass out from the pain. And I was like, I wish I could pass out from the pain because this is, I could feel them taking my organs out and moving them. I could feel them pulling the baby. I mean, it was, it was, I'm shaking just talking about it. It was major abdominal surgery without full anesthesia. Patients don't know this happens. Doctors and nurses do. So when I look back to residency, it's something that we all see and we all know. What I remember hearing is that C-sections are going to hurt.
2:08I mean, I don't think anyone was like, hey, it's okay for your patient to be in severe pain. But it was kind of like, well, pressure's normal. Pressure's normal. Pressure's normal. And I'm like, how does he know that it's pressure, not pain? I feel like at first, before I saw it happen, when people would say, oh, yeah, I felt everything and all this. I'm like, that can't be true. Like, there's no way. There's no way. Who would let that happen? Like, who would do that? But, uh... From Serial Productions and The New York Times, I'm Susan Burton, and this is The Retrievals, Season 2, The C-Sections.
2:45Coming July 10th. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
2:55Thank you.
From the publisher
C-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. Coming July 10th.
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