Ah, well of course he is a man ... they have a much lower suffering threshold than the rest of the human species
Must admit I didn't like the sound of it ... then a I realised that I'd spent longer than that in the dentist's chair having things drilled and pulled (sorry!) - she did have a sedative so wasn't completely alert, but she was just so relieved not to have to face a GA at her age, and the music drowned out everything she needed it to. Apart from the inane and repetitive conversation of the other ladies on her ward when they all came back from their ops ...