It should be easy to disprove false memory, I'd think, at least in the case of procedures that are recorded. Ask the patient what they remember happening, and c

It should be easy to disprove false memory, I'd think, at least in the case of procedures that are recorded. Ask the patient what they remember happening, and compare with the recording to see if those things did occur or didn't. I'm not inclined to assume every report of this happening is due to false memory, which is itself a somewhat controversial topic. As the article points out but is not even slightly novel in saying, we don't have a firm understanding of why general anesthesia works, just that it does. That's good enough to be going on with, but not yet understanding the mechanism at work means it's reasonable to expect we also don't yet have perfect knowledge of why and when it doesn't work perfectly, and there is therefore nothing implausible about there being rare outliers such as those under discussion here.