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“Why listen? Serial team does it yet again, with caveats. It's a five-part story of a group of women undergoing IVF at the Yale Fertility Clinic who endured agonizing egg retrievals without pain blocking medication because a fentanyl-addicted nurse had been stealing and replacing it with saline. These traumatic experiences and their aftermath become entangled in a thicket of thorny issues: Is women's pain still systematically downplayed and ignored by the medical profession? How much responsibility does Yale bear for these errors, and have the sufferers been appropriately compensated? Was justice served in the case of the nurse, who was given an extraordinarily lenient sentence owing to her responsibilities as a single mom and an emphasis on rehabilitation rather than punishment for drug-addicted offenders? The podcast does an admirable job of examining these threads, though I was unconvinced and remain somewhat skeptical of its most assertive conclusion—that this incident is further proof of widespread bias against women in medicine.”Read full review »
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06/14/24
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“I’m now listening to the first episode of The Retrievals. It’s great & I'm ready to binge-listen to the rest. Last Serial series I listened to was The Trojan Horse. That was also gripping & thoughtful.”Read full review »
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“Why is this being promoted when there are no episodes available to watch??”
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“Very good story, well narrated and kept me interested. I feel so bad for these woman, we should learn to not feel shame when it comes to our bodies. We are all different and trying to have a baby is very personal and very debilitating when you can’t have one and try everything in your being to...”Read full review »
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