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The '''Treaty of Drapes of 1982''' (also known as The Anesthesia & Surgery Truce) is one of the great historical documents in the history of medicine. Its signature on April 14, 1982 signaled the end to decades of bloodshed between the warring factions of Anesthesiology and Surgery.
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?]</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]</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]</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]].
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