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Thank you. all these expressed are those of the person speaking and not their employer. You're listening to The Nocturness, stories from the world of medicine.

I'm Emily Silverman.

In today's story, pathologist Sue Wheaton shares a captivating story about her mother,

a woman who broke the mold not only as a surgeon, but as a race car driver.

In the story, Sue brings us on an adventure from her childhood,

where she served as her mother's co-pilot during a road race.

As a result, we gain a window into a complicated relationship between mother and daughter and the evolving legacy of a parent who maybe wasn't the warmest,

but was definitely one of the coolest.

Sue is a pathologist in Minneapolis and has been a partner with hospital pathology

associates for 26 years.

She graduated from Rush Medical College in 1991, followed by a residency at Northwestern

and a fellowship in hematopathology at the University of Utah.

Let's take a listen to Sue's story, Traction in the Rain.

It takes me about 17 minutes to drive home from the hospital, and it is not infrequent that I call my mom and download my entire day, sometimes without even taking a breath.

I tell her everything. I tell her about the new mom that I diagnosed with the chemia and how heartbreaking that was. I tell her, hey, mom, we can finally quit wearing masks at work. And this particular day,

I tell her about this horrendous autopsy I had. It was a patient with toxic megacolon. He comes

into the hospital and he perforates his bowel. They have ordered the autopsy

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