A new podcast details the excruciating pain women suffered at the Yale fertility clinic where a drug addict nurse stole anesthesia and replaced it with saline solution during agonizing egg retrieval surgery
kuzma/iStock(NEW YORK) A group of seven women are suing Yale University, claiming they underwent invasive and painful procedures for in-vitro fertilization and received saline instead of fentanyl, an opioid painkiller. According to the complaint, the women received saline after a nurse at the Yale University Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic stole fentanyl for her personal use last year and replaced it with saline. As a result, the women underwent a fertility procedure oocyte retrieval without pain management, according to the complaint, which described the process as "excruciating." "Oocyte egg retrieval is an extremely invasive procedure," the law firm representing the women said in a statement. "Doctors and nurses explained to these patients that this surgery would require a dose of fentanyl to alleviate pain. However, each was then unknowingly treated with saline instead." The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in state court in Waterbury,