Having had the misfortune to be sick a lot and in hospital. In every hospital I was ever in there from Finland to Ireland and others, it seems like standard procedure to do endoscopy with nothing to knock you out. I let them do it once and it is hands the worst experience of my life.
In USA we use propafol and so while our system definitely sucks parts of the socialized model are barbaric. That was the word my American doctors called it.
I had an endoscopy without painkillers, it was certainly uncomfortable but nothing that would require me to be 'knocked out' for. It also meant I got to watch the camera feed, which was definitely odd :)
Having had the misfortune to be sick a lot and in hospital. In every hospital I was ever in there from Finland to Ireland and others, it seems like standard procedure to do endoscopy with nothing to knock you out. I let them do it once and it is hands the worst experience of my life.
In USA we use propafol and so while our system definitely sucks parts of the socialized model are barbaric. That was the word my American doctors called it.
I had an endoscopy without painkillers, it was certainly uncomfortable but nothing that would require me to be 'knocked out' for. It also meant I got to watch the camera feed, which was definitely odd :)