Wrong Assumptions

Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 7:03 a.m.

Cynical surgeons describe anesthesiology as 99% boredom, and 1% scared shitless. \u201cWrong Assumptions\u201d is about the 1%.

In this true story, a healthy, 37-year-old woman enters the hospital to deliver her third baby under epidural anesthesia. In the operating room following delivery, she suddenly slips into a coma for no apparent reason. How can a routine case go so wrong? In about a million and a half different ways. This is one of them.

\u201cWrong Assumptions\u201d was originally released on our Strange Daze Podcast.