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One recent morning, Ava Martinez sits calmly in her Meriter Hospital room in her pajamas, reading the daily paper and waiting for her monthly appointment. Around 7, after chatting about the weather with the nurse taking her vital signs, she walks down the hall to a surgical unit, climbs into bed, and says a prayer. A nurse hooks her up to an IV that delivers a short-term anesthesia and a powerful muscle relaxant. Within seconds, Martinez is out cold. An anesthesiologist slides a bite block into her mouth and holds an oxygen mask over her face, while a nurse inflates a blood pressure cuff on her right ankle to prevent the muscle relaxant from reaching Martinez

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