Anaesthetists Hymn

Everybody wonders what anaesthetists do while the patient is asleep. Everybody wonders what we do for three hours while that machine goes beep. Everybody reckons we drink coffee and we gossip and we re generally subversive. Everybody reckons we do crosswords and sudoku s and we chat up all the nurses. But do you really think that s all we do Well let me tell you now it isn t true. Cause we sometimes check the screen, and every now and then we write stuff. And if we have to intervene, we inject a bit of w