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Hi 'Retrievals' listeners! Episode 3 drops today. (If you're just joining us, catch up with our newsletters about Episode 1 and Episode 2.)
In Episode 3, we meet Susanna Stanford, who lives in England. In my estimation, Susanna has done more than anyone in the world to try to solve the problem of pain during cesarean — despite the fact that she has no medical training.
When I first met Susanna, a little over a year ago in a hotel room in London, she handed me a folder of documents.
Many of the documents were articles from medical journals about pain during cesarean, including some Susanna had written herself.
You might think that medical journal articles would be dry, but I found them fascinating. Taken together, they told their own story of how we got to this point with pain during cesarean. These studies spoke to key moments in obstetric anesthesia, offering insight into how pain was discussed at different points in recent history, and when and how researchers began to elevate it as an important area of study.
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