Unique and very clever - with her visual storytelling Susan Burton made the issue accessible to everyone. Viscerally. @serialproductions.bsky.social

Writing like it's a television drama complete with instructions for a camera operator. That's an unusual maneuver for a podcast. One I'd never heard before. Neither had Susan Burton until she wrote that way herself for #TheRetrievals from Serial and @nytimes.com. @prx.org. @transom.bsky.social.

The second season of @nytimes.com podcast #TheRetrievals should be required listening for everyone attending #WCOA2025. A complication with an incidence of 8% requires #ObAnes clinicians to be prepared. True failure is failing to be prepared for failure and failing to treat intraoperative pain.

The @nytimes.com and @serialproductions.bsky.social have released the second series of The Retrievals. It is powerful, compelling listening from Susan Burton with Julie Snyder, Ben Phelan and team. The 4 episodes are a solutions focused look at intraoperative pain during caesarean delivery. 1/

I've just listened to this series and it's both powerful and shocking - the "normalisation of deviance". But at least the situaiton appears to be changing. Well worth 3.5 hours of your life. @susannastanford.bsky.social

After Season 1 of "The Retrievals," hundreds of listeners wrote to us saying they "felt everything" during their C-sections. Season 2 investigates how this happens—and who is trying to fix it. Subscribe now to get the first episode on July 10. lnk.to/akQAPD

‘We found pain during cesarean delivery under neuraxial anesthesia to be very common, affecting more than one in six patients.’ It is important to see this statement in print. 1/4 doi.org/10.1097/ALN....

Heartbreaking to read the BBC article posted by @oaa-anaes.bsky.social below. This simply should not still be happening. If you work in #OBAnes, listen to women. If a woman says she’s in pain, believe her. @rcoanews.bsky.social podcast on pain during CD here - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

The Snapshot Obstetric National Anaesthetics Research (SONAR) project investigating pain during Caesarean with neuraxial anaesthesia got underway this week. This NIHR portfolio project is something I have been agitating for over almost 10 years. Why? 1/

This case study outlines ‘what good looks like’ in public and patient involvement in healthcare improvement. A truly collaborative experience, thanks to the principled approach of the researchers. A privilege to work with this team. @marydixonwoods.bsky.social @lisahinton.bsky.social

✨My essay in @thelancet.bsky.social this week has made the front page!✨ (I didn’t know about this 🤗) ‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient - doctor relationship. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Lovely feedback for this podcast. It was many years ago that the infinitely wise @martinbromiley.bsky.social encouraged me to think about how the messages from my experience of obstetric anaesthesia could be generalised. It is great to see this still comes across.

It is often overlooked that patients who engage in research do so to try to prevent others suffering as they have themselves. This insightful blog is spot on describing their grief as ‘an invisible weight they carry into every conversation, decision, and interaction.’ #patientsafety

For trainees in obstetric anaesthesia, the new NovPod series from the RCOA and OAA will be useful. I had fun chatting with Eoin Dore and Rosie Grimes about testing neuraxial blocks and being prepared for those which fail. We covered a lot of ground! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Welcome to everyone new to Bluesky! Here are 4 (illustrated) steps you can take to make your experience here more pleasant than what you left behind on X and/or Threads. A 🧵

Impact of safety incidents on staff can IMHO be a bit of a taboo subject. There are two givens in a medical career. 1) We will be involved in something going wrong. 2) We will need to say sorry to a patient or family. I don’t think we teach either well…

We do trainees a real disservice by not preparing them for the inevitability of being involved in adverse events. A couple years ago Sarah Seddon and I made this film hoping to help: bit.ly/ManagingAdve...

Never the first to arrive and never the last to leave… Moving over from X for a happier space and looking forward to continuing learning in the way I did in the best days of Twitter. All views my own. Only answerable to Betsy…