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...problem. One small polyp had been removed from his colon, but in the process doctors discovered another, larger one. They knew that such growths very often become malignant. He would have to undergo major surgery: a three-hour operation, involving a deep abdominal incision, to be performed under general anesthesia, never a happy prospect for a 74-year-old man. The doctors offered him a choice: wait two or three weeks, or go ahead as quickly as possible. Go ahead, said the President...
...help stroke patients recover more quickly. Unlike electroconvulsive therapy, which affects the whole brain, the magnets are focused only on specific regions at the surface, or cortex. And because the treatment does not trigger a seizure (as electroconvulsive therapy does), there's no need for muscle relaxants or anesthesia and no problem with memory loss. Patients undergoing magnetic stimulation usually feel only a kind of tapping on their skull as the current starts to flow...
...Graduate, and there is something to be said for original music that supports an original film. Granted, the Shins’ song is a plot point in the movie, and “The Sound of Silence” which accompanies Benjamin Braddock’s conveyor-belt anesthesia was recorded before The Graduate was made. Ultimately, what I hate is that the Garden State soundtrack isn’t a great soundtrack, it’s just a great mix-tape...
...after she suffered breast cancer and a mastectomy--she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a particular problem of repressed personalities, a notion that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. And in her 1977 book On Photography she proposed that photographs were a kind of moral anesthesia, deadening our response to pain by reproducing images of suffering until they become banalities...
...design a patient's prosthesis in advance and a plastic surgical guide that fits over the gums and enables the surgeon to place the implants precisely without splaying open the gums, thus reducing healing time and the risk of infection. The surgery takes only an hour under local anesthesia. "This is revolutionary," says Abraham Ingber of Bethesda, Md., one of 20 U.S. prosthedontists working with the system. The company plans to launch Procera nationwide in the first quarter...