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Hospital patients are being offered FILMS such as Dirty Dancing instead of general anaesthetics


  • Watching a film relaxes patients, so they only need local anaesthetic
  • Idea was developed by an anaesthetist at Peterborough City Hospital
  • Means that elderly people avoid risky general anaesthetics
  • Dirty Dancing is the most popular choice among female patients
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  • April 18, 2013
OMG, if they screened me Dirty Dancing I would die 😃

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  • April 18, 2013
LOL Petr. Now why would you do that?:D

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