The latest Serial miniseries is framed around the horrible case of IVF patients made to endure surgery without anaesthetic because the Yale hospital nurse was stealing their fentanyl.
It is an *excellent* reflection on the complexity of transgression & the question of what healing justice would even look like - not least because 2 victims are, respectively, a public defender & an addiction scientist. Nothing "true-crime"-y here: real, compassionate journalism.
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https://pca.st/episode/6e5ecb6d-6e45-4e77-8b7c-74b35aa4691b
@MLClark also points out women's continual struggle with getting their pain to be taken seriously by a mostly male medical profession.
In the 1850s an anaesthetic changed for childbirth, which gave male doctors an opportunity to relitigate in formal medical journals whether a woman should be allowed pain meds in childbirth at all. Many felt that "Eve's pain" was expressly given by the Christian god, not to be removed by man. Many also didn't like that childbirth pressures + meds sometimes triggered orgasms in the women, in front of Men Who Weren't Their Husbands.
So... there's been change, but far less than needed.