Wrong Assumptions

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

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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.

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