Listening To Our Bodies with Susan Burton
Directionally Challenged
Kayla Ewell
4.9 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Kayla is joined by author and reporter, Susan Burton, to discuss her latest podcast “The Retrievals” from Serial Productions and the New York Times. As an alumna of Yale University, this story hit close to home for Susan as she uncovered the disturbing accounts of hundreds of women going to infertility treatment at the university’s fertility clinic. So how did exactly one nurse with an addiction problem get away with swapping out these womens’ fentanyl with saline? And what were the consequences of not just her actions but the medical staff surrounding her? You’ll have to listen to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Kayla. I'm so happy you're able to join us today because we are all still |
| 0:14.4 | so directionally challenged. We thought we would have it all figured out by the time we |
| 0:18.8 | were in our 30s, but surprise. We don't. And that's okay. Do you want to have a baby? That's |
| 0:26.0 | a question we ask ourselves a lot as women and what amount of pain would you endure to do so? |
| 0:31.6 | What happens when a group of over 200 women experience immense pain during egg retrieval |
| 0:38.6 | and their pain is ignored and come to find out the nurse was stealing fentanyl and replacing it |
| 0:44.0 | with saline? No, this isn't the beginning of a horror movie. This is real life and this happened |
| 0:48.8 | to women just like me and you. Today I am interviewing Susan Burton whose latest project is titled |
| 0:55.3 | The Retrievals. It's a podcast series from serial production and The New York Times. She is an |
| 1:01.0 | accomplished author, former editor of Harper's. She graduated from Yale and has so much to share |
| 1:06.0 | on this topic. I came across Susan's podcast by simply just clicking it and starting to listen to it. |
| 1:13.6 | It is captivating. It goes into such detail interviewing 11 to 12 women who went through all of this |
| 1:20.6 | and have the exact same story and what's interesting about Susan Burton's take on this is she |
| 1:26.2 | is a former Yale graduate and all of this took place at Yale Medical Clinic. Now our health |
| 1:31.8 | is a big deal to us, right? All of us. Well, you can imagine going to a place like Yale Medical |
| 1:36.6 | Clinic, you would think everything's going to be taken care of. They know exactly what they're doing. |
| 1:41.0 | That wasn't the case. Listening to this podcast, I felt wildly uncomfortable and I still get |
| 1:46.2 | chills from it. How every woman that she interviewed had almost an identical story. They experienced |
| 1:51.8 | immense pain, unbearable pain and no one took them seriously. In some cases, they put a wet rag on |
| 1:57.2 | their heads and were told they'd be fine. There's so much to this. So let's hear from the journalist |
| 2:02.4 | who reported on this story. Without further ado, here is my interview with Susan Burton. |
| 2:09.6 | And I am here with Susan Burton. Susan, I truly mean it is such an honor to be talking to you today. |
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