To Hold On To or Let Go Of (Your Beliefs For the Greater Good) - An Anaesthesia Anecdote

Earlier this month, I attended a conference in Nagpur aimed to improve the skills of anaesthesiologists who may not have access to the latest gadgets and gizmos in their hospitals.

For the layperson, the device featured helps us identify nerves without cutting you open. Bringing a needle close enough to this nerve allows us to deposit a drug around it, resulting in all the muscles supplied by the nerve (now bathed in this drug) turning temporarily numb to pain, allowing for surgeries to be don...