Originally posted by lithos Legal trial, Ash. Jayant Patel (I am not going to put the "Dr." in front of it,) is finally up for manslaughter.
Some classic, real-life ones from Jayant Patel:
"You're a big boy." Response to a patient requesting anaesthetic for a minor surgical procedure.
"Doctors can't carry germs." After a nurse asked him to wash his hands between patients.
That's one of my nightmares. Did the paralytic they gave you work? Can't move, but can feel everything? Fortunately, they've started hooking up ECGs to monitor patients' brain activity while under anaesthetic, as opposed to the traditional "Hey, you awake?"
Just before summer I had a serie of operations where they put an electrode along my spinal cord (and some other cables and electronics, battery...I'm a cyborg). The thing with this surgery is that they keep you awake all the time because they need your opinion: so there I was on my belly trying to conversate with the anasthesist (correct english?) while they where doing things "behind my back" until they had the electrode in preliminary position and put on the current and asked me "how does this feel"...bloody difficult at that moment to feel where the heck the electrical field manifested itself in my legs...I was sort of overwhelmed by all other impressions. And I don't know how many shots I got with local annasteshia before they started to cut in my back...these shots are quite painfull by themself. I could move, I could talk, I could feel them work on me, but not as a pain, but still feel it (well, on some occasion the pain went through and I had to ask for some more local annasthesia). An odd experience.
Anyway, I hate waking up from anasthesia...not that I have ever thrown up...but it is like a really bad hangover...and on one event, some 10 years ago, I called my wife from the "wake-up-room" (some insane nurse on watch had the bad judgement to give me a phone), confessed my great love for her talking like a drunk...and when I called her again a couple of hours later: "Honey I'm awake now, all went fine"...she answered "That's great, I know, you already called me..." I had no memory of calling her
She had a lot of fun telling me how I had been speeking "Hooooooney, III looove you sooo muchhh!", but I also think that she was quite satisfied to know that I did think of her already when I was barely conscious.