Anesthesiologist & Artist
The photographs of Alfred Feingold, M.D.
ON AUTOPILOT: Tabitha Washington, M.D., a resident in anesthesiology, is monitoring a patient who has been given a regional anesthetic to prepare for the removal of a golf-ball-sized aneurysm in his popliteal artery, in the lower leg. |
This patient is stable and the anesthesiologist is now in that quiet period when all she has to do is be aware if something untoward happens. She's listening to the monitors. It's like being the pilot of an airplane at 40,000 feet midway between Boston and San Francisco. There's another picture where you can see that the patient doesn't have any devices around his face, so that means he's awake and she's injected a medicine to make the operative area numb. |
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