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The book included comments, accompanying a patient\u2019s unnamed medical chart, claiming \u201cthe over 200kg club are almost always \u2018easy\u2019 intubations\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the book\u2019s introduction, Rathie claimed it was created with the purposes of \u201camusement and bemusement\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may well learn a thing or three about subjects that were otherwise unlikely to become lodged in your hippocampus,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n

\u201cContained herein is a compilation of images collected over the last year or two during my work as an anaesthetist in a busy regional hospital in Queensland, Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n

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