At the height of the pandemic, anesthesiologists have stood on the front lines with the heightened need for intubations in response to deterioration in patients' oxygenation. What was once thought of as solely the behind-the-scene brain during surgeries to keep patients safely asleep in the operating room, they truly have shown the pertinence of the field in every corner of the hospital during the darkest of days. But still, so many questions from the public envelope the world of anesthesia. Is anesthesia safe? Can anesthesia cause memory loss? What if one wakes up during surgery? And better yet, what if one does not wake up after surgery?

In the meticulous, calculative, and scary world of the milky white Propofol and the paralyzing Vecuronium, a small dosing error can truly cost one's life. Therefore, there is no better person to answer th ...