The Retrievals - Trailer

The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to
pursue pregnancy. They began their I.V.F. cycles full of
expectation and hope. Then a surgical procedure called egg
retrieval caused them excruciating pain.


Some of the patients screamed out in the procedure room. Others
called the clinic from home to report pain in the hours that
followed. But most of the staff members who fielded the patients’
reports did not know the real reason for the pain, which was that
a nurse at the clinic was stealing fentanyl, and replacing it
with saline.


From Serial Productions and The New York Times, The Retrievals is
a five-part narrative series reported by Susan Burton, a veteran
staff member at “This American Life” and author of the memoir
“Empty.”


Susan details the events that unfolded at the clinic, and
examines how the patients’ distinct identities informed the way
they made sense of what happened to them in the procedure room.
The nurse, too, has her own story, about her own pain, that she
tells to the court. And then there is the story of how this all
could have happened at the Yale clinic in the first place.


Throughout, Burton explores the stories we tell about women’s
pain. How do we tolerate, interpret and account for it? What
happens when pain is minimized or dismissed?


Episode 1 of The Retrievals arrives Thursday, June 29th.


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