Gas Man10 9 8 7 6 Thats about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin and thats all most people know about what I do. But what happens between you conking out and waking up? And what does the anaesthetist have to do with it all? Do they just sit around playing sudoku while the rest of the team do all the hard work? And why are they so obsessed with what time you ate dinner? Join Colin Black on his journey from accidental

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