Weird movie idea: A team of neuroscientists accidentally discover that surgical anesthesia doesn’t actually prevent patients from feeling pain—it just prevents you from forming a memory of the pain.
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Replying to @nbashaw
... oh god, when I first read this I didn't notice the "Weird movie idea:" line at the top and was genuinely scared
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Replying to @juliagalef @nbashaw
I have bad news for you: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/surgical-patients-may-be-feeling-painand-mostly-forgetting-it/547439/ …
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Nope, nopenopenopenopenope Trauma blanket, please
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Replying to @webdevMason @Plinz and
Yeah,
@juliagalef, sorry to break it to you but I’m with@Plinz here. We don’t have much evidence that this isn’t the way the world works, and some evidence that it is.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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Replying to @nbashaw @catherineols and
Then again, if you don't remember something after the fact, does it really matter? Are there extra stress markers in the system?
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Hard to say. I was going into my surgeries with optimism and arose with a sense of abject terror, without knowing why.
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Well, that's horrifying.
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