THE increasing use of Pentothal Sodium as an important anesthetic agent during major surgical procedures is well attested in the current literature on methods of anesthesia. That its optimal ...

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Dear Doctors: After a thoracotomy for lung cancer surgery, I had pain and tingling, along with tightness and spasms, in my midriff. I was told it would ease, but it hasn’t. It’s been a year, and the ...