Wrong Assumptions

A healthy, 37-year old woman comes into the hospital to deliver her third baby. In what started out as a seemingly routine case, ended up with the woman slipping into a coma… How is it possible for a routine case to go so wrong? In a about a million and a half different ways… This is just one of them.

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Strange Daze is a bi-weekly podcast from the creators of Straight Talk MD, hosted by anesthesiologist Frank Sweeny. Each episode fuses narrative storytelling with science as our host examines a real case of a surgery or a procedure that went terribly wrong and dissects out why. Even the best doctors practicing at the best medical institutions make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes have serious consequences. And sometimes, even when you do everything right, things can still go terribly wrong. The most cynical surgeons depict anesthesiology as 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror. Strange Daze is about the 1%.