All drugs have can cause side affects ranging from no side affect to death. By your first post you showed your fear of Versed, the trauma it caused you, and the need to find some answers before you would let it be used on you again. It amazes that as a medical person you would label patients that had trauma and fears of the drug greater then your own as "off the deep end". It is obvious by your last post that you gleaned information from both this site and what you call the "off the deep end" sites in order to get the dr and the anesthesiologist to address your fears and concerns.