Oh, it creates a lot of difficulties - anxiety, difficulty with pain control etc etc. But it's still better than the patient waking up after the surgery unable to see because they got too close to a vision center.
Does one feel a bullet to the head?
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I saw a few brain operations as a Registered Nurse
The patients head is generally firmly clamped and the body relatively free
The patient is well able to move and respond to requests
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What a fascinating experience that must be.I saw a few brain operations as a Registered Nurse
The patients head is generally firmly clamped and the body relatively free
The patient is well able to move and respond to requests
Miss it
gamelord
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I saw a few brain operations as a Registered Nurse
The patients head is generally firmly clamped and the body relatively free
The patient is well able to move and respond to requests
Miss it
i want it to happen to me
There was news just recently, of a person playing the guitar while his brain was worked on. Pain not in the brain but perhaps from the surface wounds? suppressed for the operation?
I knocked myself out once, hitting my head on concrete, falling off my roof, much slower than a bullet, no pain, no memory of the fall, of the preceding cause even.
I knocked myself out once, hitting my head on concrete, falling off my roof, much slower than a bullet, no pain, no memory of the fall, of the preceding cause even.
DaveC426913
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The brain itself has no touch or pain sensors (why would it?)
Whacking one's head has a way of interfering with the recording of the most recent experiences.
The transcription from experience to memory takes a non-zero length of time, so if something goes awry that interferes with the process, the memory may not get laid down.
Think of unplugging your hard drive a fraction of a second after hitting the Save button.
Should not a bullet entering your skull give you a jolt equal to the recoil, before short circuiting , and then scramble all your grey matter before conscience could register?