Why do anesthesiologists ask us to count back from 10 before going under?

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I understand they want to know when we pass out, but why count backwards from 10? Why not count forward from 1?

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When I was a teen I had an emergency appendectomy. I asked the anesthesiologist if I should count down and he said sure if I wanted. I started at 10 and made it to 0, thinking I was real smooth I could negative one, negative two, and then I woke up the next day with a missing appendix, 16 staples and week in the hospital ahead of me

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