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...said that Palliative care--treatment that alleviates pain and suffering without necessarily relieving the patient's medical condition--is a better solution that euthanasia, but is not made available under our medical system...
...experiencing a phenomenon that anesthesiologists delicately call "awareness." These unexpected wake-ups occur in at least 40,000 of the nation's 20 million annual surgeries, according to Emory University anesthesiologist Peter Sebel, who has studied the problem. In most cases the pain-killers keep working, and all the patient feels is the unnerving pressure of a scalpel cutting and scraping. But, Sebel estimates conservatively, in at least 400 such awareness accidents, the pain breaks through the veil of drugs. It's possible, say other experts, that the number of patients who wake up each year to excruciating pain...
...humiliation is not just for women. Tracy, who went on to found a support group called AWARE (Awareness with Anesthesia Research Foundation), tells of one male patient who woke up to a female nurse holding up his penis and laughing about its diminutive size...
...variety of reasons, most awareness survivors never tell their anesthesiologist about the experience. One study suggests that only 35% ever say anything. But such studies are rare, and most anesthesiologists have no conception of how deeply their patients suffer. "I used to think people who talked about this topic were flakes," admits Texas A&M anesthesiologist Charles McLeskey, who became a believer after a patient told him what he had overheard while he was under...
When will it stop? When it always does. When the last speculator gets hung out to dry and the patient buyers begin to step up to the plate. The market that always bounces back first is the country with the strongest bond market. And that would be? Hmmm, that's easy. The United States...