Article: HYPNOSIS REVIVED AS A COMPLEMENT TO SEDATIVES

The woman's voice dances like spring rain on a tin roof.

"Just imagine your whole body floating," the woman says to the man prone on an operating table. "Right now, you're going to imagine floating someplace safe and comfortable - a lake, a hot tub, or just in space."

The woman is Dr. Elvira V. Lang, a conventionally trained interventional radiologist practicing at one of the high temples of conventional medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Lang has embraced a practice once scorned as the tomfoolery of circus charlatans - hypnosis. And she uses it in the operating room, in place of mind-numbingly heavy doses of sedatives.

Lang finds herself astride the fault line separating ...

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