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A member asked:

Why when doctors are doing any painful procedure, they keep telling the patient over and over again to just keep breathing.?!

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Dr. William Jenkins answered

Specializes in Anesthesiology

I don't think: they do that unless give a medication that might depress respiration

Answered 9/28/2014

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