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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.




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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