Word: anesthesia
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...began tasting his own blood as the armored limousine sped him away from the scene. But he was brave, stoic, uncomplaining. Lying in bed, he even began offering a stream of jokes. To doctors as he entered surgery: "Please tell me you're Republicans." On coming out of anesthesia, he paraphrased W.C. Fields: "All in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." And again: "If I had this much attention in Hollywood, I would have stayed...
...intensive screening process: agencies ask everything from favorite music, to how quickly one tans, to SAT scores, to the occurrence of asthma in the family. If a donor is paired with an infertile couple, she is treated with the drug Lupron to prime her body; the donor receives local anesthesia, and her eggs are “harvested” from the ovaries via needle, up to 40 at a time...
Another approach gaining popularity is collagen or fat injections, administered under local anesthesia by a urologist, to plump up tissues around the urethra. The body tends to absorb collagen, so the shots must be repeated every year...
...Aston, husband of socialite Muffie Potter Aston. This is the same location where last month, in a case that made national headlines, The First Wives Club author Olivia Goldsmith, whose work often celebrated and satirized plastic surgery, died after seeking a cosmetic procedure. Both women died of complications from anesthesia...
...appear to do everything right but still end up paying the ultimate price. For her chin tuck, a procedure generally characterized as routine, Goldsmith chose the best board-certified plastic surgeon royalties could buy and had the operation at a respected hospital but still had a bad reaction to anesthesia. Her death was not necessarily related to plastic surgery; it might very well have happened during an emergency appendectomy. It did, however, cause a momentary flutter in the plastic-surgery community. Doctors across Florida, California and New York said they received a few concerned calls from patients that week...