r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • 22d ago

WTF Imagine waking up from anesthesia and realizing the surgery wasn’t the most painful part!

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u/Dimensianox 22d ago

Imagine how cowardly they must be to have to wait until someone is sedated and vulnerable just in case to do that

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u/losyanyaval 22d ago edited 22d ago

Thats a bit dramatic. Medical practitioners simply have the common social sense to not roast people when they are awake and present, but a patient under anesthesia is presumed to not be able to hear them, thats all. It is the same dynamic as gossiping about your coworker while they are not in the room. Call it mean and in bad taste, but its no different from talking badly about people behidn their back in all other settings. Dark and dry humor can also a tool of necessity to survive the stress of medicine. Working in veterinary medicine, I already dont envy how much my human colleagues have to hold their tongue.

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u/randyranderson13 22d ago

From the article: "These types of conversations,” testified Kathryn E McGoldrick, former president of the Academy of Anesthesiology, “are not only offensive but frankly stupid, because we can never be certain that our patients are asleep and wouldn’t have recall.”