This is Susan Burton, host of the podcast, The Retrievals.
Cutting someone's body open and then operating when they can feel it.
That is not supposed to happen.
That's something from history or from war.
It can't be happening to 100,000 women a year.
Can it?
From Serial Productions and The New York Times, it's The Retrievals, Season 2, The C-Sections.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarro.
This is The Daily.
A major investigation from the Times has found that government pressure to perform more and more organ transplants is creating greater risk for donors and threatening the overall fairness of the system.
Today.
My colleague, investigative reporter Brian Rosenthal, on what he's uncovered.
It's Wednesday, July 30th.
Brian, thank you for coming into the studio.
Thanks for having me.
Tell us about how this investigation that you have now been up to for many, many months began.
So it began when I got a vague suggestion from a source that I should look into the organ transplant system.
Something presumably not on your radar.
Not at all.