The word 'anaesthesia' means 'insensitivity to pain'. This is about pain caused by a medical or surgical procedure. But anaesthesia is much more than pain control and artificial sleep. If we have to describe what an anaesthetist really does, the terms ‘protection’ and ‘stabilisation’ of the body's vital functions would definitely pop up.

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