This is Susan Burton, the host of the Retrievals.
We're making episodes four and five this week, but I have some tape that I wanted to put into the feed.
I'll play that in a moment.
But first I want to say thank you to everyone who's been writing to me with their own stories.
Among the people who've been writing are former patients at the Yale clinic.
Some Yale fertility patients are hearing this series and learning for the first time that there may be another explanation for the pain they experienced during their treatment there.
I will say more about this in the last two episodes.
I'd love to hear from any Yale patients or any Yale staffers.
The tape I want to play this week is one of my favorite pieces of tape, one I've tried to fit into almost every episode.
And it keeps not fitting, but it actually belongs right here because it's a perfect bridge between where we've been in this story and where we're going.
It gets us from the patients and Donna to what happened at the clinic and to how to hold Yale accountable for that.
The tape is from Leah, the lecturer at Yale.
I love the way she goes from high to low here, from a towering institution to the supply closet.
I think the thing that I, and I should say this about what it was like to be at the sentencing is how little Yale came up.
I was really infuriated by that.
I am deeply, deeply concerned about Yale identifying a bad egg and saying, we eliminated a bad egg.
You have a world class institution where that has what I think over a $40 billion endowment.
Now, some of the wealthiest people in the world and the smartest people in the world run this institution.
You have a, you have a certain responsibility.
If you have that much power and if you're going to be responsible for the lives of women and the lives of their families.