Early in residency, had a guy once that seemed “out” as normal during an operation. No abnormalities. In the recovery room claims he heard everything we were saying in the OR. We of course initially thought he was full of shit, but he quoted verbatim much of the chit chat the team was having (not that any of it was bad thankfully). This is very much not typical.
Reminds me when we had basic military medicine training and our officer told us to be extremely careful what we would say even while moving around people who seemed dead.
Hearing is the last sense that goes he said. The idea was to keep calm and not talk about how something was hopeless.
I'm not qualified to say if this is true but I keep getting reminded about it in different other settings.
