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Jad Abumrad

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She wrote a book called Ether Day, which goes into a lot of detail about the dark, dark days of surgery in the early 1800s.

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Back then, during surgery, there were no painkillers, and patients were awake.

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probably more awake than they'd ever been in their whole lives.

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This is such a cool room.

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Here we are at the top of the ether dome.

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But then, everything changes.

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It's a Friday morning.

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I assume the room is full?

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The room is absolutely full.

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The students were all lined up to watch.

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Crowded in the bleachers because they'd heard something big was going to go down.

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about to do an operation.

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He brought in a patient who needed a tumor taken out of his neck, and he was just about to slice into the guy.

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Just about to start the surgery.

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When this mustachioed fellow bursts in.

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And he basically said to Warren something that must have sounded completely nuts.