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Susan Burton and Laura Starecheski andOutcomes of fertility treatment are typically measured by whether or not the patient has a baby. The outcomes in this case are a lot more complicated. Women at the clinic lost trust in the medical system. Now many of them have to reckon with that unease as they progress through pregnancies and childbirth. They are also trying to hold Yale accountable for its failures, but how do you bring a lawsuit for ignoring pain?

Persons: Susan Burton, Laura Starecheski Organizations: Yale

Susan Burton and Laura Starecheski andAfter the nurse is sentenced, patients file a lawsuit against the fertility clinic at Yale. The nurse, Donna, is just one person. How did Donna get away with what she was doing — and how long was she doing it for? And what about the pain patients felt during retrievals? We go inside the Yale clinic to find out what staff members can tell us about the failings and to try to make sense of that pain from the perspective of doctors and nurses.

Persons: Susan Burton, Laura Starecheski, Donna Organizations: Yale

Susan Burton and Laura Starecheski andThe patients are still reckoning with what the pain the nurse inflicted has cost them. Having entered a guilty plea, the nurse arrives in a courtroom in downtown New Haven, Conn., to receive her sentence. In her work, she’s encountered lots of patients with addiction, and she starts out sympathetic to the nurse. But during the hearing, Allicia will learn something about the nurse that she cannot forgive. The judge begins the hearing by announcing that she hasn’t yet made a decision about the nurse’s sentence.

Persons: Susan Burton, Laura Starecheski, she’s, Allicia Locations: New Haven, Conn

Now, they find out who did it: a nurse and mother of three in her late 40s from a well-off town in Connecticut. The women wonder how the nurse will account for what she’s done. Meanwhile, the nurse is writing her own story for the court. We learn what the nurse says about why she did what she did and the stories her friends and family tell about it. Everyone awaits the hearing at which the nurse will be sentenced.

Persons: Susan Burton, Laura Starecheski Organizations: Department of Justice Locations: Yale, Connecticut

Susan Burton and Laura Starecheski andDozens of women came to a clinic at Yale for fertility treatment. All of them experienced unexpected and severe pain during a procedure called the egg retrieval. They said that their pain was not taken seriously by their health care providers, or that they were not believed. As a consequence, they came up with their own explanations for their pain. Now the patients who were in pain had an explanation for it — and lots of questions for the institution that let this happen.

Persons: Susan Burton, Laura Starecheski Organizations: Yale

Susan Burton and Laura Starecheski andThe patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy. Some of the patients screamed out in the procedure room. Others called the clinic from home to report pain in the hours that followed. 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.

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