“A couple of orderlies will be here momentarily to transfer you from the gurney to your new bed.  Your surgery has been set for 8am on the 2nd.  Try to remember.  All things considered, it’s not a very complex surgery.  And you’ll be in Dr. Fuji’s very capable hands. [The patient asks if their body will last that long]   If we say it will, it will!!  You got that?!  Besides, you’re welcome to go anywhere if you have anywhere else to go.”