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We'll need
some sponges.

:21:07
O.K., I got 'em.
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Great.
We'll get ready.

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Let's check
the eyes.

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Get a gurney
in here.

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Right there.
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Straight in.
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Next, we have
a 30, 35-year-old male,

:21:21
no I.D.,
no medical history.

:21:23
He was found
on the riverbank

:21:25
just south of the city.
:21:26
There are homeless
and indigents there.

:21:28
We get three no-names
every week.

:21:31
Nobody does anything until
they become train wrecks

:21:33
like Mr. John Doe here.
:21:35
He's got burns
covering 40% of his body.

:21:37
The hands and face
are the most severe.

:21:40
Ten years ago,
:21:41
pain from the burns
would have been intolerable.

:21:44
He would have spent
his life screaming.

:21:46
Now we use
the Rangeveritz Technique.

:21:49
Quite simply,
:21:50
we sever the nerves within
the spino-thalamic tract,

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there... which, as you know,
transmits neural impulses

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of pain and vibratory sense
to the brain.

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No longer receiving
impulses of pain,

:22:03
you stick him
with a pin...

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Ouch.
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And he can't
even feel it.

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As in many
radical procedures,

:22:16
there are serious side
effects to this operation.

:22:20
When the body
ceases to feel,

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when so much
sensory input is lost,

:22:25
the mind grows hungry.
:22:27
Starved of
its regular diet of input,

:22:30
it takes the only remaining
stimulation it has...

:22:33
the emotions...
:22:34
and amplifies them,
:22:37
giving rise to alienation
and loneliness.

:22:39
Uncontrolled rage
is not uncommon.

:22:41
Now surges of adrenaline
:22:42
flow unchecked
through the body and brain,

:22:45
giving him
augmented strength.

:22:46
Hence, the restraints.
:22:49
Naturally, we give them
every chance of recovery.

:22:52
Remain optimistic,
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inspire confidence,
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talk to him about
rehabilitation potential.


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