This is what it's like waking up during surgery

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 12:01 a.m.

General anaesthetic is supposed to make surgery painless. But now there’s evidence that one person in 20 may be awake when doctors think they’re under.

Written by David Robson

Read by Brian Yim Lim

Produced by Graihagh Jackson

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