Smug, condescending nurses who inform you that anesthesia is safer than driving in your car.
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Oh, fuck them and the mice they rode in on.
Posted by: Debbie | July 10, 2006 at 01:28 PM
It's driving while UNDER anesthesia that's the real trick
Posted by: Jo | July 10, 2006 at 01:34 PM
Don't Nurses read Wikipedia:
Overall, the mortality rate for general anesthesia is about five deaths per million anethestic administrations.[1] Common causes of death under anaesthesia include
* aspiration of stomach contents
* suffocation
* allergic reactions to anaesthesia and other deadly genetic predispositions
* human error
and "in 1994, motor vehicle crashes accounted for 40,676 fatalites (in the USA)". I don't know the number of trips driven in 1994, but its gotta be in the billions. So, I'd say the nurse was probably smoking crack.
Posted by: severin | July 10, 2006 at 04:01 PM