Dear Dictator

Dear baby resident surgeon dictator:

Patients are not inducted under anesthesia. They are inducted into the Army and induced under anesthesia. It's just the way the English language works.

And while I'm thinking of it, patients are on medication regimens, not regimes and certainly not regiments. A regime is a political thing and a regiment is another military thing. They don't even sound all that much alike.

Sincerely,

Your devoted if not more than a little frustrated friendly neighborhood MT.