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q1w2 on Nov 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as ...

General anesthetic has been shown to cause brain damage.

Surgery on infants without anesthetic has been shown to cause emotional differences in children.

There's no good solution. Doctors were weighing consequences with little data.

lulzury on Nov 22, 2021 [–]

Do you have any source to back up your first claim? My understanding is that general anesthetic has been fairly well understood for some time and relatively free of long-term side-effects.

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