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Serial

The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 2

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.582.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

What went wrong with Clara’s delivery? And can Heather get doctors to talk about it?

Transcript

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0:00.0

These first two episodes of The Retrievals are free.

0:06.2

But to hear the whole series, you'll need to subscribe to the New York Times,

0:09.7

where you'll get access to all the serial productions and New York Times shows.

0:13.9

And it's super easy.

0:15.4

You can sign up through Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

0:18.5

And if you're already a time subscriber, just link your account and you're done.

0:26.8

I just remember all of a sudden just being like, oh my God, I don't feel good.

0:33.3

Previously, on the retrievals. It was an unfathomable amount of pain,

0:38.3

and I remember begging them to stop.

0:46.3

And one of the attendings,

0:51.3

she looked at me and told me to tell her that it was okay. That's one thing I regret

0:57.2

the most that I didn't say like, it's not okay. I felt horrible. And then I got mad. And then I got really

1:09.4

mad. From serial I got really mad.

1:17.6

From serial productions in the New York Times, I'm Susan Burton, and this is the retrieval season two, the C-sections.

1:24.3

And I got really mad, and I was like, I am going to talk to the provider.

1:28.6

I don't even know what to say.

1:31.4

I'm so angry.

1:35.6

Usually this scene happens in a hospital corridor.

1:39.0

There's a template for this.

1:40.9

One doctor dressing down another, maybe shouldering furiously out of an OR, stripping

1:45.7

off gloves, throwing them into a bin with an emphatic gesture, and turning to face their

1:49.9

colleague. The one doctor, passionate and outraged about what just happened in that room, and

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