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Janice P. Nimura on Her Research Process for
The Doctors Blackwell
January 20, 2021
The woman on the operating table is cruciform and supine, bared and numb below the waist, the still point in a room filled with bustle and movement. A scalpel, bright against the deep brown curve of her belly, opens an incision just wide enough to insert a hand. A curl of smoke rises from a cauterized blood vessel. Anesthesia enables a shocking level of violence: Retractors yank open the wound, the edges of skin surprisingly tough. The layer of fat is yellow and fluffy, spilling out like upholstery. The obstetric surgeon, Dr. A, stands on a stepstool for better leverage and uses her whole body, wrestling the baby toward the light while somehow keeping her voice blithe and unstrained: “Just a little pressure here.”