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The Retrievals’ Second Season Will Upset You
In its second season, The Retrievals continues its exploration of how medical institutions routinely let women down.
The anesthesiologist on call failed to administer the proper painkillers, and despite her protestations, she was forced to feel every moment of her Cesarean section: blade cutting the abdomen open, hands retrieving the babies (she had twins), uterus lifted out of her body (“exteriorized,” in medical parlance), organ returned, skin stitched shut. Camera pans over the water, and the magnificent buildings rise from the shoreline.” Burton continues in this self-aware, vaguely noir register as she introduces Clara, another nurse named Mindy Figueroa (pictured above), and Heather Nixon, the head of obstetric anesthesia at the hospital. It’s a heavier, flashier touch than the show’s first season, which chronicled a case at the Yale Fertility Center in Connecticut, where, in 2020, a nurse regularly stole fentanyl solution and left dozens of women to undergo egg retrievals without painkillers.
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