BEFORE THE OPERATION
Sir-I was interested in "Sundowner’s" reflections from a hospital bed, particularly his assumptions of the thoughts and feelings of those who, under certain conditions of health, are going under an anaesthetic (not a "local’"’), "Sundowner" assumes that such patients must be preoceupiéd \ with thoughts of the hereafter, the skill and experience of the surgeon, and possible complications during the operations. I have had eight operations in as many months, under "Sundowner’s" arbitrary conditions, and never once have I given a thought to those things. I have questioned other patients in a, similar predicament, and they have, substantially agreed with my experience, I am not a Christian, so I was not worried about the ‘alleged judgment day; the skill and experience of the surgeon cannot be doubted within human limits; complications are always possible, but only a morbid mind would think about them. If you dcen’'t "come out," you will never know about it. so why worry?
DELAYED
FLAP
(Christchurch). 3
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 780, 2 July 1954, Page 5
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163BEFORE THE OPERATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 780, 2 July 1954, Page 5
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