Sounds boring but ... a short, fascinating interview about anesthesia

From yesterday's NYT Science section

Call It a Reversible Coma, Not Sleep

Dr. Emery Neal Brown, 54,  is a professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School, a professor of computational neuroscience at M.I.T. and  a practicing physician, seeing patients at Massachusetts General Hospital. Between all that, he heads a laboratory seeking to unravel one of medicine’s big questions: how anesthesia works.