Word: anesthesia
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...like an estrogen-deprived freak gives an actress plenty to work with. And Garner delivers. Tall and slim, with flying buttresses for cheekbones and pincushion lips, she is saved from true, distracting beauty by her masculine jaw and long forehead. Garner can be vulgar when Bristow is threatened with anesthesia-free dentistry, vulnerable when she's dealing with her morose CIA handler and horrified when she discovers her fiance murdered in the bath. But mostly Garner spunkily goes about the business of gathering intelligence and trapping bad guys as if spies were just women who are really good at multitasking...
...TRANQUIL? If you've had surgery recently and experienced nausea while coming out of anesthesia, your doctor may have given you a tranquilizer called droperidol. Even at standard low doses, however, the drug can cause an irregular heartbeat, and last week the FDA issued a warning to physicians, asking them to use droperidol only as a last resort...
Nucleoplasty (literally, removing the nucleus) is aimed at relieving that pressure. Using only local anesthesia and light sedation, which allows the patient to remain awake, the doctor inserts a needle into the distended disk and is guided by an X-ray imaging system that reveals the needle's position at all times. A wandlike device is then threaded through the needle and into the disk. There it emits a burst of radio-frequency energy that heats and almost instantly vaporizes the excess tissue, providing in turn almost instant pain relief...
...would someone come so far for a medical procedure? One reason is that the operations are cheap: $60 per patient, all inclusive. But the main draw is the method used: in 1998, Guangzhou Second City People's Hospital began using general anesthesia for every operation, which is used in the rest of China solely for late-term abortions or patients under extreme stress. But here, thanks to the drugs, all patients are unconscious during the 10-minute operation. "We've performed over 7,000 'no-pain' abortions since we began the service midway through 1998," one long-haired nurse...
...over insurance coverage that nearly derailed their efforts, Duke's doctors were able to find Hunter a new liver and install it in time to give him new life. I witnessed part of the surgery, performed by Dr. Betsy Tuttle, and was there shortly after Hunter awoke from the anesthesia and described how an angel on the wall of his hospital room had told him, "It's not your time...