The Retrievals

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The Retrievals
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Presentation
Hosted bySusan Burton
Genre
  • Investigative journalism
  • Serialized audio narrative
LanguageEnglish
Length3h 51m
Production
Production
  • Susan Burton
  • Laura Starecheski
Editing
  • Laura Starecheski
  • Julie Snyder
Theme music composed byCarla Pallone
Audio formatPodcast (via streaming or downloadable MP3)
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes9
Publication
Original releaseJune 22, 2023 (2023-06-22)
Related
Website Link to NYT Podcast

The Retrievals is a podcast by Serial Productions and The New York Times and hosted by Susan Burton.

Contents

History

The podcast is produced by Serial Productions and The New York Times . [1] The show debuted on June 29, 2023. [2] The podcast is a five episode show hosted by Susan Burton. [3] The podcast focuses on how female patients are treated in contemporary medicine. [4] A nurse at the Yale Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic was switching out fentanyl-based painkillers for saline. [5] The nurse had switched out 175 vials. [6] The show interviews Laura Czar who underwent a procedure where she was given the saline instead of the painkillers. [7] The show includes interviews with dozens of women who were impacted. [8]

Season 2, of The Retrievals, subtitled The C-Sections, was released on July 10, 2025. [9] This season focused on women who were not listened to when they said they were in pain during cesarean delivery. [10] Episode 1 interviews Clara, a labor and delivery nurse in Chicago who experienced traumatizing pain while giving birth in her own workplace, and Mindy, her co-worker, who was present at the time.  Episode 2 follows Dr Heather Nixon, obstetric anesthesiology division head, responding to the incident. The episode follows Dr Nixon delivering a speech at The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology annual conference with clinicians in the audience responding to questions raised in the presentation. Episode 3 interviews Susanna Stanford, a patient in England who experienced intraoperative pain and campaigned to raise awareness of anesthetic failure, co-authored the UK Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association guidelines for the prevention and management of intraoperative pain during Caesarean delivery and advocated a shift in research methodology to include patient reported outcomes. [11] [12] Episode 4 returns to Chicago with Dr Heather Nixon, Mindy and Clara, describing efforts to improve care. [13]

Content

The first two episodes of Season 2 are available on traditional podcast distributors. The third and fourth episodes were available for New York Times subscribers only. The first episode was released as an episode of This American Life . [14]

Reception

The series was named the best podcast of 2023 by Nicholas Quah at Vulture [15] and Eliana Dockterman at Time Magazine . [16]

Awards

AwardDateCategoryResultRef.
Peabody Awards 2023Podcast & RadioWon [17]

References

  1. ↑ "3 Podcasts to Listen to in July". Podcast Review. July 5, 2023. Archived from the original on July 7, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  2. ↑ IV, Daniel Figueroa (June 30, 2023). "'How could this happen at Yale?': Serial podcast features women whose pain meds were swapped at fertility clinic". CT Insider. Archived from the original on July 8, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  3. ↑ "The Retrievals podcast explores 'living nightmare' at Yale fertility clinic – Rodina News". July 3, 2023. Archived from the original on July 19, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  4. ↑ Sawyer, Miranda (July 8, 2023). "The week in audio: Into the Dirt; The Retrievals; Taste; Walt Disney: A Life in Films – review". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077. Archived from the original on July 10, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  5. ↑ Gupta, Neksha (July 9, 2023). "Donna Monticone Controversy and Scandal: Yale Fentanyl Clinic Lawsuit Explained". PKB News. Archived from the original on July 4, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  6. ↑ Brown, Natalie. "New podcast The Retrievals explores 'living nightmare' at Yale fertility clinic". news. Archived from the original on July 3, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  7. ↑ IV, Daniel Figueroa (June 30, 2023). "'How could this happen at Yale?': Serial podcast features women whose pain meds were swapped at fertility clinic". New Haven Register. Archived from the original on July 5, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  8. ↑ Sturges, Fiona (July 10, 2023). "Women denied pain relief tell their stories in podcast The Retrievals — review". Financial Times. Archived from the original on July 11, 2023. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  9. ↑ Burton, Susan (July 10, 2025). "'The Retrievals' Season 2 Is Out Now". The New York Times . Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  10. ↑ Sawyer, Miranda (July 11, 2025). "The Retrievals is disturbing but essential listening". The Observer . Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  11. ↑ Plaat, F.; Stanford, S. E. R.; Lucas, D. N.; Andrade, J.; Careless, J.; Russell, R.; Bishop, D.; Lo, Q.; Bogod, D. (2022). "Prevention and management of intra-operative pain during caesarean section under neuraxial anaesthesia: a technical and interpersonal approach". Anaesthesia. 77 (5): 588–597. doi:10.1111/anae.15717. ISSN   1365-2044. PMC   9311138 . PMID   35325933.
  12. ↑ Stanford, S. E. R. (2022). "What is 'genuine' failure of neuraxial anaesthesia?". Anaesthesia. 77 (5): 523–526. doi:10.1111/anae.15723. ISSN   1365-2044.
  13. ↑ Koenig, Sarah (August 7, 2025). "Listen to All Our Episodes of 'The Retrievals'". The New York Times . Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Chicago Hope". This American Life. July 11, 2025. Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  15. ↑ Quah, Nicholas (December 7, 2023). "The Best Podcasts of 2023 Despite a tough year for the industry, the podcast world remains vast in its pleasures". Vulture.
  16. ↑ Dockterman, Eliana (November 22, 2023). "The 10 Best Podcasts of 2023". Time Magazine.
  17. ↑ "84th Annual Peabody Award Winners Announced". The Peabody Awards. May 8, 2024. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
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