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Patient awake throughout surgery couldn't tell medics anaesthetic failed

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A patient was awake during an operation but was unable to alert surgeons because he has a disability that left him unable to tell them.

Corey Burke, 25, said his ordeal wasn't painful but instead described it as “very uncomfortable” when the anaesthetic failed to work.

Mr Burke, from Queensland, Australia, has an intellectual disability and would usually have had a mentor in with him, the Daily Star reports.

But the doctors had ordered the mentor to leave the room. Due to his disability, which Mr Burke said is invisible, he was unable to communicate with the doctors so he was powerless to stop the surgery despite him being able to feel everything.

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