Hypnosis + anesthetics is likely better then just anesthetics when doing surgery. It means you need less anesthetics and there’s decent evidence that it provides better wound healing.
Faster wound healing, earlier postoperative gastrointestinal recovery, and less nausea have been reported when hypnosis or positive suggestions were part of the perioperative management
I have a friend who I knew from having attended hypnosis seminars together who worked as an anesthetic in a hospital who still didn’t use hypnosis. It would have meant spending 15-30 minutes more per patient and the hospital was organized in a way to pressure him to do anesthetics as fast as possible.
Instead of being able to do it, his job demoralized him enough to quit never wanting to work in a hospital again.
The hospital doesn’t profit from the faster wound healing enough to do the nonstandard thing of using hypnosis even when it has skilled personal.
Hypnosis + anesthetics is likely better then just anesthetics when doing surgery. It means you need less anesthetics and there’s decent evidence that it provides better wound healing.
As a paper in a reputable anesthetics journal suggests:
I have a friend who I knew from having attended hypnosis seminars together who worked as an anesthetic in a hospital who still didn’t use hypnosis. It would have meant spending 15-30 minutes more per patient and the hospital was organized in a way to pressure him to do anesthetics as fast as possible.
Instead of being able to do it, his job demoralized him enough to quit never wanting to work in a hospital again.
The hospital doesn’t profit from the faster wound healing enough to do the nonstandard thing of using hypnosis even when it has skilled personal.