I always thought that tonsillectomy can only be performed under general anesthesia. I was wrong... In some countries even now, awake tonsillectomy is routinely performed using only local anesthesia. There has even been some papers written on this topic which I was not aware of until now. According to one 2018 paper , a local anesthetic tonsillectomy without general anesthesia is performed the following way: ...cold steel method of dissection, using tonsillar snare at the inferior tonsill…