Essai Analytique

Why are people so afraid of surgery? I bring this up because I go in to get my wisdom teeth pulled this week. I'm not too worried about it myself, because I've been through five other surgeries before, but that's another story. Everyone says I'm crazy because I'm not having an anesthesiologist come in to knock me out. Others say its a really bad surgery, which it can be, but mine won't be. The dentist said so. So once again, why do people insist that surgery is bad?

When talking to people, I've found out that they are just scared about surgery. Fear = bad, according to most people. A lot of people are scared of waking up during surgery, but do you think the doctor is really going to let that happen? The few cases of that happening are extremely rare, and it hardly happens. Others are scared about what they don't know. They have no clue what the doctor is going to be doing during the surgery, and on top of that, they usually don't trust the doctor doing their surgery, which sometimes includes putting your life into their hands. That doesn't help when they usually don't even know the guy.

Basically, most people associate surgery with bad because they are scared about it. They've heard all the freak stories of what has happened, but most of the time those cases are EXTREMELY rare and won't ever happen to you. The point being, I'm not scared to get my wisdom teeth pulled. I'm confident in my dentist, and I have been through plenty of surgeries before. I'm done now.