9       The ERCP (b)

Another cold room with lots of equipment, but thankfully, another heated blanket.

A lot of people for a room this size. Everyone busy, hustling, getting ready for the procedure. Nurses, the anesthesiologist, his assistant, the gastroenterological surgeon, his intern, and others doing who knew what.

The man, 'gulliverized' with wires and IV tubes, is given an oxygen masks and told to count backwards from ten.

"Ten, Nine, Eight, Sev..."