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Those of you who have followed my columns over the last quarter century know that I have had more than my fair share of surgery. I was run over by

For women who choose to have an epidural or require a spinal block during childbirth, excellent anesthesia care is critical for a comfortable labor and delivery process.

TAWAS CITY – Ascension St. Joseph Hospital has donated some used, but completely functional anesthesia equipment to a hospital in Haiti.

TAWAS CITY – Ascension St. Joseph Hospital has donated some used, but completely functional anesthesia equipment to a hospital in Haiti.

National organizations recommend that elective surgeries should be delayed by at least 7 weeks after a patients COVID-19 diagnosis, but some specialists argue this recommendation is too conservative.

Constitution of the united states. it was under assault during that riot. it -- we would like to know more about that. >> i mean, look, one thing that i thought when i read that -- i worked for george w. bush and when he had a colon scope and was under indonesia there was a legal process row leased to the rest of the world that while he was under the effects of that anesthesia dick cheney would be in charge. it was the butt of some jokes, but internally known it was the process. is it your conte...

There were talks rush it wasnt an loud and evacuation routes but most of them said forget about it. theyre looking for evacuation routes that can take people out to the western part of ukraine. why is that? because of mariupol right now. this town is getting hammered. ukrainians described it as medieval times. the city of 450,000 people, the red cross believes at least 200,000 want to get out right now. there is no electricity. hospitals have said they have no medicine. they are operating someti...

What it is doing. we do know from ukrainian officials, they do expect an assault against the capital kyiv at some point in the coming days. todd and carley. >> todd: thank you. bill hemmer looking at how things are playing out on the battlefield. watch. >> bill: this is staggering when you think about it, in mariupol, this battle, sean, has been go og for a week. there is no power. they are running low on medicine. there are reports about operations being conducted without anesthesia. there is n...

We had no idea. that is why we decided to go back to ukraine. the fact that we are in ireland now is just, i dont know, magic. >> okay. and for you, i know you traveled together, youre related arent you? anesthesia is a child child -- psychologist. and it was her work, a particularly, a young mom called, let me just check your name, tell me about oksana and what happened. >> oksana is a woman who helped us. her child was scared and stressed.

Suffering from the current invasion. remember the international red cross is the group outside of mariupol, that town i described for you, people inside that city said it is medieval times and doing operations without anesthesia for a week. they need everything to survive. >> dana: alexs point what the refugee agencies are saying about being safe in this time to prevent even further tragedy and trauma through possible human traffickers. thats really important. we should get that on the air more ...