http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:50:30 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/05/21/024737.php#comment-407070 Three times now I've 'come out' of anaesthesia in the middle of a surgical procedure - and I can sure confirm that it hurts like hell. What astonished me most, was that in one of the cases, during a cardiac catheterization, the stupid buggers had no anaesthesiologist on call, so I was told to "bite on the towel" - as if this were the goddamned civil war or something! And this was at Washington Hospital Center, supposedly a high-tech, modern facility. I won't ever be going back to them for so much as a hangnail, nor will I ever advise anyone else to go there. What irritates me most is that I have told the doctors, and told them, and told them, "such & such an anaesthesia won't work with me", and the stupid bastards insist on trying it anyway, as if I were lying or didn't know how my own body worked! The only reason the last one followed my advice was that I followed it with ominous comments about my lawyer if he didn't! ]]> 407070@blogcritics.org Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:50:30 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/05/21/024737.php#comment-407052 In South Africa the question of intraoperative awareness is not well considered.. there are many examples of anaesthetic abuse.. I am trying to write about this to correct the situation to some degree. ]]> 407052@blogcritics.org Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:12:54 EDT