Probably murican and the fully sedated option wasn’t covered on their insurance.
“Are you sure you don’t want to be under?”
“If it isn’t covered, no. Figure it out.”
“But the operation is 6 hours–”
“So like a regular day after work? I’ll just scroll.”
Long ago, I read about someone who used meditation to keep their attention away from the pain of having a root canal. Apparently, they only started feeling some ‘discomfort’ towards the end.
Unfortunately, I can’t find the original source. And there are, of course, a slew of YouTube videos and what-have-you offering ‘meditation for root canal’ bullshit nowadays. I won’t click on them, because I don’t want my algorithm to be filled with 'Hey, root canal-lover! We’ve got hundreds of root canal videos for you to explore! But first, make sure to like and subscribe, and hit that notification bell! Now, open wide, and let’s get into it!"
Sometimes full sedation is too risky, or at least not worth it for factors other than cost
And sometimes you’re somewhere along the timestream where anesthetic hasn’t been invented yet.
In the US though, it’s definitely not for the bbenefit of the patient.
Hi, American here who can’t be fully sedated because it’d kill me. It took my doctor a hot minute to find a surgeon who could do what I needed under local anesthesia, because almost everyone did full sedation for that procedure.
1,5 h full body MRI and couldn’t do shit
