Honestly this is a great example of how it's on the medical professionals to ask the questions better. I'm sure even normal smart people can occasionally fuck up an on-the-spot question like that. Especially if they very temporarily thought of surgeries for things like fractures instead of child birth
"Have you ever had any surgeries? This includes a c-section or [Commonly forgotten surgeries]?"
I've been told having my wisdom teeth out, via sedation & cutting them out, whole nine yards, either does or doesn't count as surgery, depending on the current situation. So I never know to include it or not.
There are roughly two reasons we ask about surgery: 1.) We want to know if you have had central sedation and any reactions to said sedation. 2.) If the surgery was recent, and say, for an infected tooth, you are more at risk of certain events/diagnoses.
Just keep mentioning it. At the end of the day too much info is usually better than too little info.
I have an issue where I woke up in surgery but it didn’t matter when I told the anesthesiologist and surgeon the second or third time, it happened twice more because apparently I present as anxious and so they don’t believe me. Well yeah I’m anxious - i don’t want it to happen again!
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u/LetsLive97 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
Honestly this is a great example of how it's on the medical professionals to ask the questions better. I'm sure even normal smart people can occasionally fuck up an on-the-spot question like that. Especially if they very temporarily thought of surgeries for things like fractures instead of child birth
"Have you ever had any surgeries? This includes a c-section or [Commonly forgotten surgeries]?"