Playing with the Anesthesia Machine

This is a much lighter, more "traditional" anesthesia story, stepping away from some of the darker stuff I've written lately. It might not seem that way initially, but this is a positive story, I promise! Mostly. Like a lot of the previous stories I've written, this is largely not explicit.

I've made a protagonist (of ambiguous gender) who's really into anesthesia and medical equipment. Jeez, I wonder if that's author insert at all? Because of that, and because I've tried to write this such that it feels very real, with lots of real life details, I feel compelled to offer this disclaimer:

This is fiction. Entirely fictional, not real. This is not my, or anyone else's, real life story. It's fiction.