Word: anesthesia
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...some ways, this latest turn of events was even more upsetting and confusing than the birth. But the physician's recommendation was clear: the vestigial ovarian and Fallopian-tube tissue and the testis should be removed at once, while the child was still under anesthesia. Otherwise the tissue could become cancerous. "All I could hear was cancer, cancer, cancer," Debbie says. So she and her husband consented to the operation. (The phallus, which doctors eventually renamed a clitoris, was surgically reduced two years later.) The next day the Hartmans took home their recovering infant, whom they quickly renamed Kelli...
...term makeover suggested little more than a new eye shadow or a dye job. Now it is just as likely to result in a straighter nose, larger breasts and a brow that won't furrow when confronted by even the most noxious odor. That attaining such features often involves anesthesia, injections, incisions, blood and a professional with at least seven years of medical training is a distinction increasingly lost on the general population...
DIED. OLIVIA GOLDSMITH, 54, social satirist whose debut novel, The First Wives Club, became a best-selling revenge fantasy for women dumped by their husbands for younger second wives; from a heart attack while under anesthesia during plastic surgery; in New York City...
...relatively high cost of labor in the U.S. as compared with Asia, some manufacturers are finding ways to maximize the worth of that skilled labor. B. Braun Medical, a medical-equipment maker in the valley, is a good example. The $750 million company makes intravenous tubing, anesthesia kits and other devices. On a tour of the company's production facilities in Allentown, CEO Caroll Neubauer proudly displays a large metal chamber where cardboard boxes packed with finished goods are sterilized. "This used to be outsourced," Neubauer says with a smile. "We brought it back in." By improving the machines...
...gloved hands scanning for holds, my one cramponed boot biting the rock, and my other jammed in a cornice of ice. It was 40 minutes later, when my brain was barely in charge of my body and I felt like I was pushing through wet concrete mixed with anesthesia, that my teammate Chris Morris lowered his mask, wrapped his arms around me and whispered hoarsely: "Big E, I think you're about to stand on top of the world...