Hillary Rea: A Standard Pregnancy
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Hillary Rea enjoys her job as a "standard patient" helping to train medical students, until she's asked to sub in on a birth gone quite wrong. Hillary Rea is a Philadelphia dwelling comedian and storyteller, and the host of the storytelling shows Tell Me A Story and Fibber. She is a NYC Moth StorySLAM winner and was featured on The Soundtrack Series and How I Learned podcasts. She was a 2011 Artist-in-Residence for Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. For more info, please visit: hillaryrea.com
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I felt right. |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well. |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Glider, |
| 0:28.6 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:31.3 | We have shows coming up in New York City, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Boston, and London. |
| 0:35.2 | Go to Storycladder.org for more info. |
| 0:38.1 | This week's story is from Hillary Ray. |
| 0:39.8 | It was recorded in February 2015 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm scared of babies. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm scared of their little fingers and the drool and the way that they just fixate on you, even when you try to look away. |
| 1:03.0 | I've been scared of them ever since seeing look who's talking as a kid, and I have recurring nightmares about them ever since |
| 1:11.7 | accidentally channel surfing to baby geniuses on TBS and I'm actually even more |
| 1:19.5 | scared of giving real birth like if you give natural birth your vagina rips open if |
| 1:27.2 | you have a C-section they rip your intestines out and then |
| 1:31.2 | put them back in. And whether or not you have a natural birth or a C-section, you always shit the |
| 1:37.1 | bed. I'm sort of generally scared of everything about the human body, but it's lessened since I started a job a few years ago. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm a standardized patient, so I'm a medical actor. |
| 1:53.0 | I am someone that acts out a character that has an ailment for medical students to help them figure out how to diagnose someone with a medical problem and how to interact with them |
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