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🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | Most people stop using pagers decades ago, but in a lot of hospitals the pager is still the way you reach doctors in an emergency. |
0:08.5 | A classic thing is like, never got the page, you know, where were you? Never got the Page. |
0:13.0 | Why is it so hard for doctors to let go of their pagers? |
0:16.0 | That's on the Planet Money Podcast from NPR. |
0:19.0 | Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Embedded from NPR, and we have a special series from our friends |
0:27.9 | at the CBC called The Kill List. |
0:31.8 | In the last episode, we heard about the mysterious list. In the last episode we heard about the mysterious death in Canada |
0:36.0 | of Pakistani dissident Karima Baluch. Today's episode is about another death that |
0:41.6 | happened just months earlier in Sweden. |
0:44.0 | This time of a Pakistani journalist who was writing about many of the same human rights issues that Karima was focused on. |
0:52.0 | The striking resemblance of his death to Karima's |
0:55.9 | death made many people wonder could the two be connected. Just a note before we |
1:00.8 | get started this episode contains difficult subject matter, including references to suicide. |
1:07.0 | If you or someone you know might be considering suicide or in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the suicide in crisis lifeline. |
1:15.6 | Okay, this is episode 2 of the kill list from the CBC, a death in Sweden. |
1:21.9 | Here's host Mary Link. |
1:44.0 | In Linc. In late April of 2020, just outside of Uppsala, a city in Sweden, a young man cycles down a gravel path leading to the fierceris River. It's a path he takes often. |
1:46.0 | As he looks down along the river bank, |
1:48.3 | he notices something half in, half out of the water. |
1:52.0 | First he thinks it's a rock. |
1:54.0 | When he gets closer, he sees a dark hoodie. |
1:58.0 | And then he realizes it's a body. |
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