When you go under, your brain doesn’t just sleep.
“A lot of people think anesthesia is an off switch, and then you turn it back on later,” said Boris Heifets, MD, PhD, Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford Medicine ...
When you go under general anesthesia, you vanish. The surgeon speaks, monitors beep, nurses call out vitals, and you remember none of it. You wake up as if someone cut a hole in time. But according to ...