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Alaina Urquhart

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Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

And at first the doctor was like, oh, you know, puberty, you're 15.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

So the doctor was like, you know, you're 15 years old.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

It's probably puberty.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Yeah.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Yeah.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

But then he ran some simple blood tests just to make sure everything was on the up and up.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

And he noticed some pretty unusual changes that he'd seen in other factory workers.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

And he said they were ones that had been exposed to high levels of phosphorus.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Okay.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

And as far as Catherine knew, she didn't work with or even near any phosphorus.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

So the anomalies in the blood were just kind of like, this is perplexing.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Neither Catherine nor any of the other girls knew it.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

But they were working in very close proximity to phosphorus and it was beginning to affect them physically.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

This was part of the whole thing.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

The symptoms, but they weren't told that.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

The symptoms of radiation poisoning were alarming to Catherine and her coworkers, but their minds were then set at ease because Dr. Von Shashaki's partner, Dr. George Willis, told them there was nothing to worry about.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Don't worry about it.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

It has nothing to do with your job.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Look over here.

Morbid
Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Shut up.