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Interesting discussion on the medical particulars on /r/medicine: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/50q4fa/yes_there_is_a_doctor_on_the_plane_what_i_l

Interesting discussion on the medical particulars on /r/medicine: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/50q4fa/yes_there_is_a_doctor_on_the_plane_what_i_learned/ https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/50q4fa/yes_there_...

seizethecheese 10y ago
An incredible anecdote about a different incident from that thread: > I'm going to share this story passed on to me by an anesthesiologist. He was on a trip from Canada to to Europe to visit family. He doesn't enjoy flying very much, even less so without anyone he knows to keep him distracted. So he purposefully got a late flight so he could sleep through it. Before boarding he took a few sleeping pills and downed a shot. He's an anesthesiologist, please don't try this at home. He boarded the plane almost last, did up his seat belt, and went nearly straight to sleep. Somewhere over the ocean he was half awake, in a lovely daze of drugs when he heard over the PA. "If there is a doctor on board the plane can they please identify themselves to the flight crew." He thinks about it for a minute, debating what to do and hoping someone else will say something before he has to. Finally he feels like he has no choice. He hits the call button on his seat arm and shortly after, a flight attendant comes to his row. He explains he's a Doctor and he'd like to help if possible. The flight attendant looks at him and says, "Sir, we called the Doctor for you, We've been unable to wake you for the past two hours, and we had to re-seat the passenger beside you because you were drooling on them."
- quickpost 10y ago
  Anesthesiologists are definitely a different breed. That approach (a few sleeping pills and a shot) definitely jives with my encounters with a few of them. Epic.
  - SomeHacker44 10y ago
    When I fly commercial, I fly Delta. Once, on an SD to NYC red eye in which I take a prescription sleeping pill, the person behind me took the same one and two shots. Scared me but I guess not fatal for him.

seizethecheese 10y ago

An incredible anecdote about a different incident from that thread: > I'm going to share this story passed on to me by an anesthesiologist. He was on a trip from Canada to to Europe to visit family. He doesn't enjoy flying very much, even less so without anyone he knows to keep him distracted. So he purposefully got a late flight so he could sleep through it. Before boarding he took a few sleeping pills and downed a shot. He's an anesthesiologist, please don't try this at home. He boarded the plane almost last, did up his seat belt, and went nearly straight to sleep. Somewhere over the ocean he was half awake, in a lovely daze of drugs when he heard over the PA. "If there is a doctor on board the plane can they please identify themselves to the flight crew." He thinks about it for a minute, debating what to do and hoping someone else will say something before he has to. Finally he feels like he has no choice. He hits the call button on his seat arm and shortly after, a flight attendant comes to his row. He explains he's a Doctor and he'd like to help if possible. The flight attendant looks at him and says, "Sir, we called the Doctor for you, We've been unable to wake you for the past two hours, and we had to re-seat the passenger beside you because you were drooling on them."

quickpost 10y ago
Anesthesiologists are definitely a different breed. That approach (a few sleeping pills and a shot) definitely jives with my encounters with a few of them. Epic.
- SomeHacker44 10y ago
  When I fly commercial, I fly Delta. Once, on an SD to NYC red eye in which I take a prescription sleeping pill, the person behind me took the same one and two shots. Scared me but I guess not fatal for him.