<p>Cynical surgeons characterize anesthesiology as 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror. Knee arthroscopy is about as routine a surgery you'll ever have .... until it becomes the 1%. Episode 2 is about a lady who blew up during knee arthroscopy.</p>

Cynical surgeons characterize anesthesiology as 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror. Knee arthroscopy is about as routine a surgery you'll ever have .... until it becomes the 1%. Episode 2 is about a lady who blew up during knee arthroscopy.

Episode 2: Crepitus.

Strange Daze is a bi-weekly podcast from the creators of Straight Talk MD, hosted by anesthesiologist Frank Sweeny. Each episode fuses narrative storytelling with science as our host examines a real case of a surgery or a procedure that went terribly wrong and dissects out why. Even the best doctors practicing at the best medical institutions make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes have serious consequences. And sometimes, even when you do everything right, things can still go terribly wrong. The most cynical surgeons depict anesthesiology as 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror. Strange Daze is about the 1%.

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Episode 2: Crepitus.