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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (921)	5/31/2005 12:12:52 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Peter, when I was much, much younger than 65, doctors did not want to perform needed surgery on me because I smoked cigarettes and was thus considered an extraordinarily risky prospect. Every day, I come into contact with surgical reports on people who are well into their 80s--smokers and nonsmokers and those who have never smoked. BTW, spinal or epidural anesthesia is considered safer than general (or inhalation) anesthesia. Whenever surgery is being performed below the diaphragm, spinal or epidural anesthesia can be used. Funny thing is, most people do not want to be awake and aware during their surgeries, which the patient is when spinal or epidural anesthesia is used; hence, the patients' overwhelming preference for general anesthesia. - Holly