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"McAndrew questioned her mother about what the referring physician had said they would do if she were diagnosed with cancer, since she was obviously so weak she could never have withstood general anesthesia to remove a tumor, much less the pain and trauma of surgery with only local anesthesia. "My mother was telling me about getting a mammogram in the context of saying how great Medicare is, that it would pay for everything. But this is somebody who has the life expectancy of a fruit fly" says McAndrew. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Much of the shock came from anesthesia; Laborit reasoned that if he could use less anesthetic, patients could recover more quickly. Casting about for a solution, Laborit tried Thorazine, a shelved medication that had been developed a number of years before to fight allergies. Laborit noticed an immediate change in his patients' mental states. They became relaxed and seemingly indifferent to the surgery awaiting them. Laborit thought Thorazine might be helpful to psychiatric patients, but at that time, "no one in their right mind in psychiatry was working with drugs." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Henry Bennett, a psychologist from the University of California Medical School at Davis, suggests that, under anesthesia, patients might be especially vulnerable to upsetting remarks they overhear since their normal coping techniques aren't available to them. Specifically, the studies that support this statement include: • A number of patients were given the suggestion during surgery that one of their hands was becoming warmer and the other cooler. The temperature of both hands changed accordingly." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"They may get some relief from emotional anesthesia caused by the blunting effects of many drugs, or they may get a brief mood elevation from drug-induced euphoria. The mood-elevating effects are almost always short-lived but they encourage the individual to keep hoping that one or another drug will finally provide sustained relief from suffering. Many people receive a placebo effect, especially early in their first treatment. In studies comparing placebo and antidepressants, the placebos tend to do almost as well in relieving depression in six- to eight-week-long trials." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Snoring is a common sign of sleep apnea. anesthesia can be risky for patients with this condition, and special precautions should be taken. AVERY RUNNY NOSE Having a runny nose—medically known as rhinitis—is usually merely a sign of a simple cold or allergy. But a continuously drippy nose may be a telltale sign of snorting cocaine, heroin, or other drugs. If you don't do drugs and don't have a cold or allergy but clear mucus drains continuously from your nose, it can signal a serious problem, such as a tumor." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Paxil can also produce an emotional flattening or anesthesia that temporarily feels like an improvement. Probably more than most antidepressants, Paxil is a powerful spellbinder, making people think they are doing better when in fact they are doing worse. Not quite two months after starting Paxil, Elliot committed suicide by hanging himself in a closet. It would be almost exactly four more years before GSK would issue its "Dear Healthcare Professional" letter in May 2006, admitting that Paxil causes suicidal behavior in depressed adult patients." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"In my specialty of cardiothoracic anesthesia for open heart surgery and transplantation, the use of pharmacologic doses of free radical scavengers is crucial to survival of the patients whose organ systems are being challenged by the stresses of complex operations. The anesthesia research literature is heavily published in this area. For this reason I have intimate knowledge of how this product BioAstin works, and the potential significance of application in the medical field." - Bob Capelli, ASTAXANTHIN: Natural Astaxanthin, King of the Carotenoids (Get the book.)

"Who's next," snapped one professor of anesthesia, "the pope?"96 Nevertheless, when it came time for the Dalai Lama to speak, more than thirteen thousand neuroscientists crowded into a huge auditorium in Washington, D.C., to hear him. There he talked about Buddhist meditation and its benefits, and then affirmed his belief in the neuroscientific basis of those benefits. The scientists gave him a standing ovation. As I write, the history of this particular "Eastward journeys" narrative continues and it remains a place to watch." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Courtesy of the Waisman Brain Imaging Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison fashion across the cortex (this was a phenomenon sometimes seen in patients under anesthesia, but not in waking states). The researchers had never seen anything like it. To be sure there was no mistake, they brought in other long-term Buddhist practitioners (both monks and laypeople) and compared their brain wave activity in meditation to that of a control group of college students inexperienced in meditation. Those practitioners produced gamma waves that were thirty times as strong as the students'." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"To test the placebo effect, they may undergo all of the experiences of surgery—including anesthesia, incisions, and sutures—while in reality nothing is added, taken away, or changed. No organs are treated. No tumors are removed. What's important here is that the patients believe something is done. Based on their trust of the doctor and modern medicine, they believe that what they've experienced will help their condition. In the presence of their belief, their body responds as if they'd actually taken the drug or undergone a real procedure." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"But in a second corrective procedure in February 2004, blood was mistakenly injected back into the spinal fluid while he was being treated under local anesthesia, sparking a rapid autoimmune reaction that would nearly cost Mullin his life. Since blood does not normally enter the cerebrospinal fluid, the body viewed these new, circulating blood proteins as potentially dangerous invaders that they needed to destroy." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"For varying periods of time, drug-induced emotional anesthesia (apathy and indifference) or a drug-induced emotional high (euphoria) can mask the person's personal conflicts and emotional suffering. All psychoactive drugs share this combined capacity to hide their adverse effects from the individual while also masking or burying the individual's awareness of personal problems, including nagging responsibilities and painful emotional conflicts. The individual's overall capacity for self-observation or self-awareness is impaired." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Reentry by anesthesia: That is, drugs and alcohol, or, as Percy puts it, rendering "the intolerable tolerable by a chemical assault on the cortex of the brain." Shining examples: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Brendan Behan, Dylan Thomas, Keith Richards. Reentry through travel (geographical): Relendess moving from place to place in order to distract oneself from oneself. Examples: D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan. Reentry by travel (sexual): Taking on a succession of lovers. Examples: D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Madonna." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"All ablations require IV sedation or general anesthesia and may not be well tolerated in an office setting because of the pain of the procedure. Ablation technology continues to advance with the hopes of developing a procedure that can be done in the office. 3. Hysterectomy, surgical removal of the uterus, should be reserved for the woman with other indications for hysterectomy such as uterine fibroids, uterine prolapse, or atypical hyperplasia. When a hysterectomy is done for bleeding problems there is usually no need to remove the ovaries." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "A cold-knife procedure is performed in the operating room under anesthesia and employs a scalpel to remove a cone-shaped piece of cervix and cervical canal. Conization has the advantage of more clearly evaluating the margins, because there is no thermal artifact. Laser ablation of the transformation zone can be performed in the operating room or the office and allows for precise management of lesions but does not provide tissue for pathology." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "When an epidural is given at no sooner than 4 to 5 cm dilation in a woman delivering her first child, the cesarean section rate is not increased over the rate of those women who go without epidural anesthesia. Cesarean section rates vary among physicians and institutions; it is reasonable to ask a provider for numbers. Around 15 percent is acceptable, although some will be as high as 20 percent; it depends somewhat on how "high-risk" the practice is. Moms or babies at higher risk may need to be delivered more urgently, and therefore more often by C-section." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Diane was put under general anesthesia, and Peters began the procedure of plunging a needle through the flesh of her hip into the bone and drawing out aliquots of marrow. Partway through the procedure, the needle broke off, its tip embedded in her bone and the top buried somewhere in her muscle. Cursing, Peters frantically searched the operating room for pliers to grasp the hidden needle, but Brigham and Women's was not set up for bone marrow work, so there were no pliers to be found. A nurse was sent out of the operating room to fetch a pair." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Tonsillectomies were not a major operation, but they were painful, and they did pose a small risk of death from anesthesia and bleeding. And the researchers simply couldn't believe that the children in Morrisville were suffering ten times the number of swollen tonsils and ear infections as the kids in Middlebury. They also knew that people living in different regions of Vermont were strikingly similar in terms of their education and income, which predict how often people get sick. (The poor, not surprisingly, suffer more illness than the rich." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Idle Chatter in the Operating Room For years it has been suspected by many doctors (and pooh poohed by many more) that patients under anesthesia can hear their surgeon's comments, and that what they hear affects them. There were many anecdotal stories of doctors, who upon opening a patient up, would see a tumor and comment out loud that it looked malignant. And then, even though the tumor would later prove to be nonmalignant, the patient nevertheless would fade rapidly and be dead in a matter of days." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Surgical alternatives include open prostatectomy, the removal while under general anesthesia of the inner part of the prostate, which has a 98% success rate. This procedure has caused the most problems with sexual dysfunction and impotence. Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is 88% effective. With TURP the doctor inserts a small device into the penis and removes prostate tissue. Complications are blood clots, bleeding, and infection. Seventy percent develop retrograde ejaculation (ejaculation backward into the bladder), which does not affect sexual performance." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Barbiturates are also used for anesthesia before surgery and for management of swelling of the brain. Barbiturates enhance the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) as well as depressing nerve and muscle tissue. Aside from dependence, side effects include drowsiness, lethargy, headache, dizziness, breathing problems, and allergic reactions. BENZODIAZEPINE MEDICATIONS In the 1960s benzodiazepines displaced barbiturates as the most commonly used treatments for insomnia." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"It can be used to deepen a person's trance state and to heighten bodily awareness under hypnosis and is therefore integral to hypnotic processes, which are focused on reducing physical and mental stress, healing illness or injury, inducing pain relief (analgesia), or full body anesthesia. Guided imagery is also used effecrively ro help achieve specialized goals under hypnosis, such as weight loss, smoking cessation, and behavior modification." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Many patients who opt for the therapy don't need anesthesia. For more information, contact the American Music Therapy Association at 301-589-3300, www.musictherapy.org. wh Arnica Oil Softens Tissues because arnica oil can reduce bruising and swelling, midwives (and some doctors) often use arnica as the oil of choice for softening vaginal tissues prior to childbirth. There are no known negative effects from using this natural lubricant during childbirth, and most doctors will use it on request (although you might have to supply it yourself if you wait until the last minute to ask)." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "There is no need for anesthesia, and because there's no cutting involved, there's no bleeding to speak of either. HICCUPS • Anise Works to Get Your Breath Back A the first sign of hiccups, chew on this: Anise, or aniseed, is a parsley-like plant that aids digestion in a number of ways, including easing hiccups. Especially effective when taken in tea, anise soothes the throat and is said to thin mucous secretions as well. Note: When taken in a form other than tea, follow the package directions closely, since anise is a strong herb." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"An example of deep hypnosis exists in a case where a person is induced into full anesthesia without medication, using the power of the mind to block what would otherwise be excruciating pain in a normal state of consciousness. State-of-the-art clinical hypnosis utilizes the natural ability of the focused mind and the mind's willingness to accept positive suggestions to improve health and wellbeing." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "General anesthesia works the same way. The flow of energy through the central nervous system and brain is so dampened that you feel no pain, even in surgery. At the subatomic level, the mind, brain, and nervous system are one. The mind is capable of dampening or even ceasing the flow of energy in the body. If the mind refuses to acknowledge or receive pain impulses from the nervous system, it is as if those impulses do not exist. A number of years ago, a man came to see me who had stomach cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "There has been extensive research on hypnosis for its many benefits to mind and body and most thoroughly for its ability to create analgesia (pain relief) and anesthesia (total lack of feeling). Hypnosis alleviates the pain associated with cancer, neurological problems, orthopedic disorders, migraines, and other chronic conditions. It will also reduce or eliminate acute pain of the sort experienced during catastrophic injuries, childbirth, or painful medical procedures like surgery. Hypnotic pain relief has many benefits." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Most biopsies are performed today using a flexible endoscope, passed orally under either conscious sedation or general anesthesia. This has the advantages of allowing direct visualization of the mucosa with a camera to look for changes suggestive of small bowel damage, such as notching or scalloping of the small bowel folds or lymphonodular hyperplasia [72]. Endoscopy also allows the endoscopist to look for other lesions, such as ulcers, esophagitis, or gastritis, which may help explain the patient's symptomatology." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

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