On today’s NPR broadcast of ‘Here and Now’, they did a segment about drug abuse among anaesthesiologists. Host Robin Young recounted an exchange she had with her anaesthesiologist right before she had a surgical procedure. The anaesthesiologist said, "I’m going to give you something, on the streets they call it ‘Kennedy’, because it kills. Young said she suddenly had an experience she characterized as ‘Christ-like’, which moved her to tell the anaesthesiologist, “I love you”; to which he replied, “I know”.
It would have to be something that didn’t immediately put you out, if she had time to experience the effect she described. I have had anaesthesia several times in the last decade, and I don’t recall anything like that; it was just clap off/clap on in recovery.
Does anybody know what medication the anaesthesiologist was talking about?