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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The packages in which the drill and other equipment were stored
would not have been opened before the operation, and in any event
Reynolds's eyes were taped shut. Regarding Reynolds's hearing the
conversation between Spetzler and the cardiac surgeon, he said:
At that stage of the operation nobody can observe or hear in that state. I
find it inconceivable that your normal senses such as hearing, let alone
the fact that she had clicking modules in each ear, that there was any
way for her to hear those through the normal auditory pathways.
In summarizing this case, Spetzler declared:
I don't have an explanation for it. I don't know how it is possible for it to
happen considering the physiological state she [was] in. At the same time
I have seen so many things that I cannot explain that I won't be so
arrogant to say that there is no way that it can happen.
Spetzler, who performed the operation, showed his greatness of
mind by admitting that he did not know. Woerlee and Augustine,
however, who were not there when the surgery was performed, were
indeed so arrogant as to forward a mere speculation as truth. When I
told this to Woerlee he retorted that Spetzler, as a surgeon, would
not have known about the phenomenon of "awareness during
anesthesia." Now it is my turn to find that inconceivable, that a
pioneering neurosurgeon such as Robert Spetzler would not have
known of this phenomenon that is taught to all surgeons and surgery
assistants.
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Smit, Rudolf H. Letter to the Editor: Further Commentary on Pam Reynolds's NDE, letter, Summer 2008; East Windsor Hill, Connecticut. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc937967/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .