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Anesthesia is a hands-on specialty. We use our manual skills daily to place breathing tubes, insert intravenous and intra-arterial catheters, and place needles for…
“I’m going to have surgery to have my gall bladder out. How long will the anesthesia last?” The query “How long does general anesthesia…
Terminal anesthesia refers to a situation when a patient has a terminal illness such as end-stage cancer and is suffering through their last days.…
Who is responsible for your anesthetic? A doctor or a nurse? On March 28, 2021 the anesthesia world in the United States was rocked…
Was Tiger Woods driving under the influence (DUI) on the morning of February 23rd, 2021 when he was injured in a single car accident?…
You’re the anesthesiologist on call on a Saturday night. A patient arrives at the Emergency Room complaining that he ate piece of steak one…
You’re a patient scheduled for elective surgery tomorrow. You’re nervous and you’d like to drink a glass of wine (or two) at dinner the…
One of my readers asked me to describe a day in the life of an anesthesiologist, as he was considering a career in anesthesiology.…
The physician anesthesiologist job market looks excellent. Medical students, college pre-med students, and academically successful high school students, are you wondering if anesthesiology is…
What were the ten most significant advances in anesthesiology in the past decade, 2010 - 2020? Here are my picks:
How do pandemics end? Now that COVID-19 vaccines have been approved, we’re all hoping this is the beginning of the end of this coronavirus…
“I don’t think that people can really comprehend how horrific this disease is, unless they’ve been personally touched by it. I mean, people are…