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🗓️ 7 August 2025
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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. |
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| 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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