The Retrievals, Season 2 - Trailer

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Speaker 2 It follows a group of doctors and nurses in a Chicago hospital who are spurred into action after one of their own nurses undergoes an excruciating surgery.

Speaker 2 The kind of thing that should never happen to anyone, but it turns out, happens a lot.

Speaker 2 Writing this season, Susan was inspired by shows like The Pit and ER. So if you're like us and you love those shows, you are in for a treat.

Speaker 2 This new season of The Retrievals rolls out like a taut medical drama. If you want to take season two for a spin, you can listen to the trailer I'm about to play.

Speaker 2 Or if you're already a fan, then you already know how good the show is going to be, so why wait? Just go ahead and search for the Retrievals podcast.

Speaker 2 You'll find the second season there ready for you to start. It's four episodes and we'll be releasing a new episode every Thursday for the next few weeks.

Speaker 2 And of course, if you're a New York Times subscriber, you can listen to the whole season right now. Okay, here is a trailer for the show.

Speaker 2 And again, please search for the retrievals in your podcast apps. Here's Susan.

Speaker 4 If you're listening to this, it might be because because you heard a podcast series I made called The Retrievals.

Speaker 4 Sometimes when I meet people, they'll say, oh, the one where the nurse stole fentanyl. Others don't mention the plot.
They go straight for the theme. They know the podcast as

Speaker 4 the one where doctors thought it was normal for the women to be in pain.

Speaker 4 It doesn't matter if you haven't heard the retrievals. The details of that podcast are less important than the common experience it described.
Pain a doctor didn't listen listen to.

Speaker 4 Pain a doctor didn't adequately treat.

Speaker 4 That resonated with many listeners, and hundreds of them, mostly women, began writing to me with their own stories.

Speaker 4 One afternoon I opened a note that was unlike any I'd received so far.

Speaker 4 The listener described something that was so shocking that I thought what she experienced must have been singular, an anomaly, a mistake.

Speaker 4 Then, within a day or two, I opened two more of these notes describing similar experiences. Soon I understood that this was a subject that would come up again and again.

Speaker 5 I was rushed into the C-section. My husband was there, and I could feel them starting the operation.
I could feel the incision.

Speaker 6 And the doctor asked me, do you feel pressure? And I said, no, I feel everything.

Speaker 5 And everybody kept telling me, oh, you know, you're just feeling a lot of pressure. And I was like, no.
I'm pretty sure this is just pain.

Speaker 5 And they said, well, that's not possible. You know, if you were feeling it, you would pass out from the pain.

Speaker 5 And I was like, I wish I could pass out from the pain because this is, I could feel them taking my organs out and moving them. I could feel them pulling the baby.

Speaker 5 I mean, it was, it was, I'm shaking just talking about it. It, it was major abdominal surgery without full anesthesia.

Speaker 4 Patients don't know this happens.

Speaker 4 Doctors and nurses do.

Speaker 4 So when I look back to residency, it's something that we all see and we all know.

Speaker 3 What I remember hearing is that C-sections are going to hurt.

Speaker 6 I mean I don't think anyone was like, hey, it's okay for your patient to be in severe pain, but it was kind of like, well, pressure's normal.

Speaker 1 Pressure's normal. Pressure's normal.
And I'm like, how does he know that it's pressure, not pain?

Speaker 1 I feel like at first, before I saw it happen, when people would say, oh, yeah, I felt everything and all that. I'm like,

Speaker 1 that can't be true. Like, there's no way.
There's no way. Who would let that happen? Like, who would do that?

Speaker 5 But, uh.

Speaker 4 From Serial Productions and the New York Times, I'm Susan Burton, and this is The Retrievals, Season 2, The C-Sections.

Speaker 4 Coming July 10th.

Speaker 4 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.