This week, let's tackle one of those first big problems we talked about: the horrible pain of surgery. Many many doctors and scientists contributed, but eventually the solution is general anesthesia, or making a patient unconscious to avoid the pain. It starts with what were once recreational drugs, but eventually becomes ubiquitous, and is to have great benefits to surgery.

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