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FILE 058 · VOL X · You Already Said Yes
The Surgeon Said You Will Feel Nothing. He Never Took It Back.
In a trance, a sentence is not a sentence. It is a door, and it stays open.
Based on: Surgery Under Hypnosis
Intake record
| Recovered from | Malpractice deposition (sealed, later partially released by consent of the parties) |
|---|---|
| Contents | Deposition excerpts, an operating room audio transcript, a letter from the patient's husband |
| Finder | Counsel for the plaintiff |
| Status | The case settled. The patient has not recovered. |
Recovered file
Dr. Elliot Crane was the best hypnosedation surgeon on the East Coast. He had trained in Belgium. He was gentle, unhurried, and had a voice that patients described afterward as being like warm water. His outcomes were excellent. His waiting list was months long.
He taught every resident the same thing about the language of trance, on their first day in his operating room.
Every suggestion given in trance had to be bounded. You did not say, you feel no pain. You said, you feel no pain in your neck during this operation. And at the end, before the patient came out of trance, you carefully undid every suggestion you had given, one by one, so that nothing lingered. He called it closing the doors.
He had done it perfectly for eighteen years.
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