Jad Abumrad

I was arguing with my doctors that they didn't know how to do their job.

And the next thing I'm in a hospital room with my appendix out and it's 10 hours later.

It sort of implies that it's like a switch.

It is.

And that's what happens.

I mean, when you raise the level of anesthesia in someone and they've done studies on this, it isn't a gentle gradation down.

You just you raise it up, you raise it up and then you are into this other state.

Do people who do this for a living know exactly why this happened?

You'd think that something that's been around since 1846 would be hammered out.

Solid.

But it's still almost a philosophical kind of mystery.

It's called a black box.

It refers to a system where you can see what goes in.

You can see that something different comes out.

And you wonder, like, what happened there in the middle?

But you can't see it.

Yeah.

It's a mystery.

It's black, and it's closed up, therefore the box.

I mean, it may not literally be a box, but today we have three different attempts to open three very different black boxes.