Word: anesthesia
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...banana to a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951). Two roles won him acclaim: George Gipp, the doomed halfback of Knute Rockne, All American (1940), and Drake McHugh, the playboy whose legs are amputated needlessly by a sadistic doctor in King's Row (1941). As McHugh wakes from anesthesia, he speaks the line that became the title of Reagan's 1965 autobiography, Where's the Rest...
...expect that the application of 64 additional meridians will result in complete anesthesia." Lee said yesterday, adding that this will allow surgeons to operate on any part of the body without drugs. The inability to anesthetize certain areas is one of the greatest problems now facing acupuncture, he said...
...very human to want to repress the ugly and the painful. But it is also very dangerous. Repression is psychological anesthesia, and like real anesthesia it becomes dangerous when the drugged patient exerts himself--feeling no pain, seeing no evidence of death, he is unaware of and unprepared for the danger from within. By not admitting that pain exists, we never find a cure, just as by not admitting that a war has been declared we never create peace, and by not admitting that imperfection exists we never reach utopia...
...remained at 108°, long enough to cause extensive brain damage. As a result, Fertig, now 24, is blind, cannot speak, and is paralyzed from the neck down. After bringing suit against the Federal Government, charging that doctors at the hospital had not monitored the administration of the anesthesia and that they had done nothing to control the violent reaction, Fertig and his family were awarded a $1 million settlement...
Wall found that patients asking for acupuncture anesthesia are admitted to a hospital days or weeks before their scheduled surgery and get test needlings to familiarize them with the sensations and to let the doctors see how they react. The surgical team emphasizes "the spiritual aspects of acupuncture" in between discussions of Marxist-Leninist dialectical materialism. At difficult stages during the operation itself, the surgical team capitalizes on the general effects of distraction: "A great deal of encouraging talk streams on almost continuously." Nevertheless, Wall saw several operations during which the patient showed "varying signs of misery." But the discomfort...