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General or Local?

Written by AJ at 03 Jun 2001 21:50:55:

As an answer to: General anesthesia? circ surgery written by cyberjay at 02 Jun 2001 18:24:17:

I'm not a Doctor but when I was circ'd a couple of months back I had a "local".

As far as I'm aware a "general" is when they put you to sleep to peform a procedure.

Prior to my op, I would have liked to have been put under for the op itself (because I was scared silly), but in retrospect it only took half an hour, whereas if I had a "general" I would've had to stay in (for post-general observation).




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