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Breathe, breathe in the air

Category: Entertainment/culture • Medicine • Music
Posted on: September 21, 2008 10:30 AM, by Orac

No, it's not Pink Floyd, but I needed surgery, I'd want these guys trying to wake me up after it was over:

They don't have to sing about it while they're doing it, though. After I'm safely awake and in the recovery room would be fine.

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They should call themselves the "Halotones"

Posted by: notmercury | September 21, 2008 10:54 AM

Ah, they have their own webpage.

Posted by: Bob O'H | September 21, 2008 11:36 AM

That's amusing. You can tell that doctors clearly don't have enough patients. :)

Posted by: Daniel K. | September 21, 2008 12:59 PM

They are not doctors, they are nurses.

Just like the one sent in during my first birthing. I asked for an epidural... So he came in and noticed that I was not dilated enough. He sat down and explained in excruciating detail all the good and bad parts of an epidural. When he was done, I was examined again.

I was too dilated for an epidural!

AAAARGH.

I gave birth about three hours later (I had a wee bit of narcotics to dull the worst bits).

I've never had an epidural even though I have asked for one... though for the last kid it was understandable, I was barely at the hospital before that kid made its appearance! Absolutely no drugs with that kid, there was no time.

Not that it made a difference. She is as annoying a teenager as her older siblings.

Posted by: Chris H. | September 27, 2008 1:48 AM

Forgot to mention, whenever you are in the hospital you will mostly see nurses.

Nurses ROCK!

Even if they are long winded CRNAs.

Posted by: Chris H. | September 27, 2008 2:03 AM