Hypnosurgery Live (Mon 10th April 21:00-More4)

pH · 08-04-2006 12:59pm #1

Hypnosurgery Live
Channel: more4 165
Date: Monday 10th April 2006
Time: 21:00 to 23:05
Duration: 2 hours and 5 minutes.

A serious investigation into the possibility of using hypnosis to reduce or even replace the use of anaesthetic in surgery. Presented by Sarah Smith, this two hour special asks whether hypnosis should be more widely available to people unsuited to, too weak for, or afraid of conventional anaesthetics.

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torinoblue · 10-04-2006 5:02pm

Is there going to be an actual serious procedure done on TV, or is the title misleading?

cousin_borat · 10-04-2006 5:11pm

My Brother performed research in this area a number of years ago. They started with minor operations such as removal of varicose veins using hypnosis and no anesthetic. Eventually they performed some major operations which would normally require a General Anesthetic. Pretty interesting alternative for people who have bad reactions to them. I don't know anything about this programme.

pH · 10-04-2006 6:29pm

It's a hernia op, routinely performed with a local or spinal anaesthetic.

I can't believe it's real - I mean neither C4 nor the surgeon would be prepared to risk even 0.01 % chance that the patient would scream in pain on a live TV show, so both C4 and the surgeon must be convinced before hand that the patient will indeed feel no pain.

I'd be amazed if a surgeon cuts a patient on live TV without anaesthetic, but then we'll see ...

monkeyfudge · 10-04-2006 6:32pm

pH wrote:

so both C4 and the surgeon must be convinced before hand that the patient will indeed feel no pain.

That can easily be handled with hypnotism.

pH · 10-04-2006 6:41pm

That can easily be handled with hypnotism.

A form of playacting(hypnosis) can handle that (pain reduction during surgery) - wow!

I guess you are an expert on pain reduction using hypnosis and have conducted clinical studies, or perhaps you got all your information from a Paul McKenna TV show?

monkeyfudge · 10-04-2006 6:43pm

I was just joking that they could hypnotise the surgeon and C4 into thinking it was safe.

pH · 10-04-2006 6:51pm

I was just joking that they could hypnotise the surgeon and C4 into thinking it was safe.

Now that I get it - that's very funny ...

In fact they could just hypnotise the surgeon into thinking he was peforming the operation and the patient into believing he was being operated on ... such is the mighty 1337 power of hypnosis.

monkeyfudge · 10-04-2006 7:27pm

pH wrote:

Now that I get it - that's very funny ...

In fact they could just hypnotise the surgeon into thinking he was peforming the operation and the patient into believing he was being operated on ... such is the mighty 1337 power of hypnosis.

Why stop there..? do the whole TV audience too.

I'll give it a look anyway.