The vast majority of gynecology procedures are scheduled - the fact that they don’t intend to do pain management and therefore don’t plan so that anesthetists are available is an effect of not doing pain management, not a cause.

What about cost, though?

Basically orthogonal to your argument.

My intended point was that raising the cost of a procedure makes it less accessible.

Maybe if we could just do economies of scale for insurance, maybe including every person, it could be much cheaper. Also, no shady lobbying everywhere anymore.

Cost is not a consideration until after they have decided that pain management would be valuable, so it can't be relevant in a scenario where it wasn't considered in the first place.

One thing that has always baffled me is why nitrous oxide isn't commonly used in these sort of situations.

There are formulations available (mixed 50/50 with oxygen) that don't require an anesthesiologist.

> After simple dental surgery,

Odd the article entirely leaves out what tooth was being worked on. The upper back molars are very close to the brain, and Wisdom teeth are connected to the central nervous system, so it is not really a head-scratcher brain damage could occur if the ophthalmologist slipped, or if the patient was hyper-reactive to the anesthesia and jerked while the doctor was working. But in both cases, the doctor should have noticed.

> ophthalmologist

isn't that eye-doctor?

and whatever the case, the risks should be told to the patient. informed consent after all.

statistically pain management is very safe, and medical procedures cause a lot of stress and discomfort, and it'd be good to manage that especially for patients who are not used to those procedures. (eg. kids, or anyone who gets a chronic disease diagnosis and and has to go through various scopies like colonoscopy).

> isn't that eye-doctor?

ROFL orthodontist isn't even close ><