Siyamak sits down with Dr. Anthony Kaveh, an anesthesiologist in the San Francisco Bay area. “But the body opens up in ways that give us a privileged look into the life of the patient. And things come up that we often don’t share with anyone else. So past traumas, maybe you’re taking medications, prescription or…

A micromort as a unit of comparing and communicating risk to patients equivalent to a one in a million chance of dying. Hundreds of millions of operations are performed every year, and the risk of death is typically around a half a percent, to which patients might say things like, “I could just die as…

Anesthesia as pain relief is amazing, and we still have trouble understanding how it really works. What we do know is that it has played an important role in medicine for centuries. This role was made uncomfortably clear to me more than 35 years ago when I had to perform an emergency cesarean section on…