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As an “el toro” anesthesiologist in Oslo, Norway in 1970, I watched with interest a visiting Australian anesthesiologist (Dr. Sid J. Aidinis) waking up patients. At the end of every anesthetic, after the endotracheal tube was removed, he would say in Norwegian: “Stikk ut tongen din” (Stick out your tongue). The patient if awake enough would always oblige. I asked him: “Why don’t you just ask him to squeeze your hand?” He looked at me and said:
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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2012). Case 2: Stick Out Your Tongue. In: Case Studies of Near Misses in Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1179-7_2
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