When Anesthesia Fails and the Patient Is Cut Open
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02/06/26
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Women’s pain is too often dismissed in medicine. An alarming number of women report feeling major surgery and dealing with doctors and nurses who make light of their complaints.
Susan Burton, reporter and host of the podcast “The Retrievals,” shares stories from just a few of the many cases of women who felt significant pain during their C-sections.
Guest: Susan Burton, the host, writer and reporter of “The Retrievals,” a podcast series by Serial Productions.
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- A timeline of the problem of pain during cesarean and the efforts to solve it.
- A series examining the solutions to pain during C-sections.
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When Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post more than a decade ago, journalists inside and outside the newsroom were cautiously optimistic. But those hopes were dashed on Wednesday, when the paper carried out widespread layoffs.
Erik Wemple, who covered the developments, discusses what went wrong and what comes next.
Guest: Erik Wemple, who reports on the media business for The New York Times.
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- The Washington Post lays off more than 300 journalists.
- As part of the layoffs, The Post eliminated its sports section, one of the last bastions of great sportswriting.
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