My most disturbing experience in a medical setting happened when I was 21. I underwent a routine procedure under general anesthesia and, while on the table, I woke up. It was my junior year in college ...
There’s a strange kind of honesty that slips out when a person is drifting through anesthesia. In those hazy moments, fears, ...
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Some, but not all, research suggests that more women recall events that happened under anesthesia than men do, and that women wake up from anesthesia faster than men.