When I was about 10 years old or so, I had to have my appendix removed. I woke up during surgery but I don’t recall feeling any pain. I do recall sitting up and a big old mama nurse slapped me in the face and I went back to sleep. I won’t ever forget that either.
A tale of two technologies. I don't care that blood draws by cops help stop drunk driving, I don't want a cop near a needle, period. Too many things can go wrong.
In the 1960's, the popular surgery was to remove tonsils (sometimes, as in my mom's case, it was even necessary). In the 1970's, the popular surgery was to have perfectly functioning ovaries and uteri removed. In the 1980's, the popular surgery was to have a knee "scoped". And, at one time, bloodletting and frontal lobotomies were also en vogue. Clearly, medicine is not always evidence based. Often, doctors are slow to change their prejudices. Doctors are not pure-hearted creatures unmotivated b…
How fat is too fat? Don't worry, the government will soon have an answer to that question and your health care will be determined by that answer. From TheHill:
And why not? You, old person, do not fall within the parameters of the rules for saving. Neither do you, small child with degenerative disease. Nor do you, Lance Armstrong with your 10% chance.
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November 18 2008 / 11:29 am
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When I was about 10 years old or so, I had to have my appendix removed. I woke up during surgery but I don’t recall feeling any pain. I do recall sitting up and a big old mama nurse slapped me in the face and I went back to sleep. I won’t ever forget that either.
November 20 2008 / 11:13 pm
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This gives me the absolute ultimate creeps.
February 2 2009 / 10:24 pm
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there’s a paralytic in the drug cocktail, people with anesthesia awareness can’t move.