NYTimes Examines Growing Trend Of Patients Staying Awake During Surgery.

In a front-page story, the New York Times (3/25, A1, Hoffman, Subscription Publication) reported that “more surgery is being performed with the patient awake and looking on, for both financial and medical reasons.” According to the Times, “Choosing to watch your own surgery is one more manifestation of the patient autonomy movement, in which patients...are eager to involve themselves more deeply in their own medical treatment.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/health/surgery-awake-anesthesia.html?_r=0