Anesthesia

Trial by Water: Loving Your Colonoscopy and Other Rites of Middle Age

Howard Barbanel | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Anesthesia, Prostate Cancer, Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, Gastroenterology, Gastroenterologists, Prostrate Exam, Movi-Prep, Middle Age, Healthy Living News
Howard Barbanel

It has been said that getting older is not for wimps. Among the great joys men experience as they slide into middle age is the prostate exam whereby o...

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What Doctors Don't Understand About Anesthesia

| Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Anesthesia, Video, Unconscious Brain Anesthesia, Brain Anesthesia, Anesthesia Mystery, Understanding Anesthesia, Healthy Living News

By Carl June (Click here for the original article) Today anesthetics are considered as routine as a trip to the dentist. They have been around at ...

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A Severed Penis, A Plea For Anesthesia And A Suicide

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Anesthesia, Severed Penis, Video, Zhu, Suicide, Fruit Stand, Dentist, Weird China, Man Cuts Off Penis and Commits Suicide, Things You Can't Do Naked, Crime News

A horrific sequence of events marred Valentine's Day in a Chinese city: A 26-year-old Chinese cut off his penis at a fruit stand and then committed su...

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Two Get Prison Time For Deadly Buttocks Enhancement Surgery

AP | By KEN RITTER | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Buttocks, Ruben Matallana-Galvas, Anesthesia, Video, Colombia, Prison, Surgery, Las Vegas Crime, Elena Caro, Carmen Torres-Sanchez, Sentencing, Buttocks Enhancement Surgery, Cosmetic Surgery, Las Vegas, Botched Plastic Surgery, Crime News

LAS VEGAS -- A Colombian husband and wife were each sentenced Thursday to up to eight years in a Nevada prison plus a year in county jail for leaving ...

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Anesthesia Before Age 2 May Be Linked With Learning Disabilities Later On

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Anesthesia Learning Disabilities, Anesthesia, Video, Anesthesia Kids Safe, Anesthesia Health, Anesthesia Safe, Anesthesia Cognitive Problems, Learning Disabilities, Anesthesia Kids, Healthy-Living-Health-News, Parents-Childrens-Healthy-Lifestyle, Healthy-Kids, Parents News

If an infant or toddler has surgery requiring anesthesia, it could raise the risk of learning disabilities later in life, a new study suggests. The...

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WATCH: Race Car Driver After Dentist?

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Funny Videos, Dentist Drier, David After Dentist, Pretending to Drive Dentist, Dnetla Patient Driver, Race Car Dentist, Driving at Dentist, Race Car Driver After Dentist, Dentist Car, Dentist Car Anesthesia, Anesthesia, Wisdom Teeth Race Car, Wisdom Tooth Race Car, Dentist Race Car, Car Driver Dentist, Comedy News

When Matt (A.K.A. CarAficionado24) got his wisdom teeth removed, it appears he used his love of driving to distract his mind from the painful procedur...

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Colorado Becomes 15th State To Allow Nurses To Administer Anesthesia

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anesthesiologists, Anesthesia, Nurses, Bill Ritter, Anesthetics, Denver News

DENVER -- Colorado has joined 15 other states in allowing advanced-practice nurses to administer anesthesia without a doctor's supervision. "Patient...

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Consciousness and Anesthesia with Stuart Hameroff

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Anesthesia, Consciousness, Video, Healthy Living News
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Plastic Surgery: Risks of Going Under the Knife

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Before the Scalpel: What Everyone Should Know About Anesthesia, Anesthesia, Anesthesioligist, Cosmetic Surgery, Healthy Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

When everybody else -- surgeon included -- are swept up in a decision to do a procedure that's not in the best interest of the patient, the anesthesiologist represents one last chance for somebody to say, "not on my watch."

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Is There Such a Thing as Hospital Etiquette for Visitors?

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Surgery, Emc, Rubber Gloves, Casinos, Desert Heat, Palm Desert, Volunteers, Social Workers, Betty Ford Center, Nurses, Dinah Shore, Purell, Eisenhower Medical Center, Walter Annenberg, Tubes, Caregivers, Sun, Hospitality, Hospital Etiquette, Five Star Army General, Bob Hope, Rancho Mirage, Er, Anesthesia, I LIKE IKE, Doctors, Country Club, Palm Springs, Cafeteria, Military, U.S.A., Frank Sinatra, Golf, Or, Sanitized, Healthy Living News
Lisa Mirza Grotts

Two weeks ago today, my husband and I drove to Palm Springs from San Francisco for a golf vacation. We were following the sun to escape the rainy Bay ...

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Genius On The Edge: The Drug Addict Who Revolutionized Surgery

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Surgery, John-Hopkins-Hospital, Plastic Surgery, Science, Imber, Halsted, Medicine, New York, Cocaine, Anesthesia, Books News
Richard Z. Chesnoff

Imber's book recounts how the father of modern surgery, a cocaine and morphine addict, performed the first recorded surgical removal of gallstones -- on his mother. At 2 A.M., as she lay on a kitchen table.

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The Cold Shoulder of Healthcare

Sally Thorner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Anesthesia, Healthcare Reform, Shoulder Pain, Inequality, Health Insurance Reform, Healthy Living News
Sally Thorner

"Wait, there's something on my lap." I was about to be discharged from the surgery center when I cautioned my nurse and friend to hold off standing me...

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Therapeutic Intention In The Doctor's Office

Bernie Siegel, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Inner Life, Anesthesia, Relationships, Therapeutic Intention, Alternative Therapies, Health, Doctor/Patient Relationship, Music, Wellness, Healthy Living News
Bernie Siegel, M.D.

The intention of the doctor, therapist, waiter or whomever is important. Several studies have shown the benefits of the correct and appropriate therapeutic intention on the person being cared for.

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Redheads More Sensitive To Pain: Study

New York Times | Tara Parker-Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pain, MC1R Gene, Anesthesia, Hurt, Redhead, Style News

"The reason we studied redheads in the beginning, it was essentially an urban legend in the anesthesia community saying redheads were difficult to ane...

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