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When Andrea Thaler, 46, was wheeled into the operating room for routine gallbladder surgery five years ago, she thought she was in a safe place. But as soon as the operation began, the Nashville, Tenn., HMO executive realized that the sedatives and pain-killers administered by her anesthesiologist hadn't quite taken hold. She could feel the surgeon make six "slicing, burning" laparoscopic incisions in her abdomen, but she was trapped by the paralytic drugs given along with the anesthesia, and she couldn't cry out or even open her eyes. "I was screaming in a black hole," she recalls...
...years, and they have not fared well. "Listening to patients," she says. "That's where Dr. Berde started. It seems elementary, but it's really so profound." The greatest tribute, however, is that Alex is thinking about a career in medicine. He spent this summer working for a Milwaukee anesthesiologist who trained under Charles Berde...
When the patient is wheeled into the "resus" (resuscitation) room, a fully mobilized team is usually ready and waiting. At a large urban medical center such as U.C. Davis, this may include a physician specializing in emergency medicine, five residents (including an anesthesiologist), three nurses, a respiratory therapist, X-ray and trauma technicians and several aides. While one doctor tries talking to the patient and checks for major injury, another starts drawing blood for tests. Other team members may be inserting catheters, stanching bleeding, administering blood or other fluids. Within five to 15 minutes, the patient...
...shattered her window. As she was on the phone to 911, she began to scream in terror. She was being bludgeoned to death. What was she saying? The 911 tape is garbled, but it may have been, "No ... Dale ... don't!'' Twenty-four hours later, Depper's ex-husband, anesthesiologist Dale Bertsch, was arrested and charged with murder. Several prominent criminal lawyers he contacted quoted him fees in the $250,000 range. Instead, he used attorney Larry Hammond, who agreed to take the case for the sum total of Bertsch's liquidated assets, which came to about $160,000. Even...
...weave the reports into a single story. Associate editor Michael Serrill wrote an accompanying piece on the corruption of children. Both stories were informed by the personal insights of our reporters as they moved through this grimy underworld. "At a strip club, I tried to convince a Flemish anesthesiologist that I didn't work there," recalls the Brussels bureau's Susanna Schrobsdorff. "Thinking he was being snubbed by a prostitute, he screamed a barrage of insults, smashed his glass, then stomped out." It was that kind of story, sad to say, all around the world...