Lidocaine and Sweet-ease make a powerful combination. If I am ever in a serious accident please just inject a little lidocaine around the injured area and give me a pacifier dipped in that delectable sucrose solution, because if it works for a circumcision, it might work for an amputated limb.
Growing up I might have said I wanted to be an architect or a chef, but I don't recall thinking that I would be a mohel ("circumciser"). I was setting up to perform my second circumcision, well not MY second circumcision but the second one I had performed, and a group of nursing students strolled by while touring the nursery for their orientation. Their guide says "Oh this is good timing, would you all like to watch the pediatricians do a circumcision?". So not only am I nervous because this is still a new procedure for me, but now I have an audience. This is when I learned to appreciate the somewhat stuporous effects of Sweet-ease, because once the baby had a little sugary goodness on his pacifier he was as happy as a pig in slop and the circ went smoothly- we just had to subtract a couple grams from the baby's discharge weight.
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