Re: speaking of Western medicine...

Russ Allbery  <rra@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I have had dental surgery under full anesthesia and dental surgery under
>the new sedation stuff, and the sedation stuff rocks my world.  Not only
>did I go under far easier, I wasn't nauseated when I came out of it and I
>recovered *way* faster from the anesthesia.

You do understand that some of the newer "sedatives" are merely
drugs that induce a retrograde amnesia so that you don't 
remember all the pain, even though you experienced it at the time.

Steve