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For the decades preceding the treaty, the neutral zone best known today as the OR drape<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2015/11/why-do-anesthesiologists/ Why Do Anesthesiologists Really Put Up That Drape in the OR?(Gomerblog)]</ref> did not exist. As there was no clear demarcation of territory, the two factions wandered into each other's "territory" with often devastating results. Surgeons would attempt to finish [[Sudoku]]<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2013/06/anesthesiologist-calls-for-stat-sudoku-help-in-or-3/ Anesthesiologist Calls for STAT Sudoku Help in OR 3(Gomerblog)]</ref> puzzles, but would do so incorrectly and in [[Pittsburgh Pens|pen]].<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2015/09/nurses-doctors-pens/ Nurses, Doctors on Pace to Lose Over 1 Trillion Pens in 2015(Gomerblog)]</ref> Anesthesiologists would "get up in surgeons' grills" and make silly faces or sounds to get them to break concentration or [[Sterile Field|sterile field]]. Tensions peaked January 12, 1982 when general surgeon Michael Wilcox hid the [[propofol]] and anesthesiology CRNA Megan Lewis retaliated and gave Wilcox an atomic wedgie a mere 5 minutes into his [[Whipple Procedure|Whipple procedure]].