This blog attempts to answer common questions laypeople have about anesthesia.
Remarkable surgeons made world-changing breakthroughs during the past 70 years. The top 10 surgical advances during this time included: • THE HEART-LUNG MACHINE •…
The movie Poor Things was nominated for the 2024 Academy Award for Best Picture. Poor Things starlet Emma Stone won the…
The Anesthesia Consultant was just named the #1 anesthesiology blog in the world by Feedspot. I'm grateful for this distinction. As of March 2024…
Is your doctor an experienced anesthesia provider or a newbie? The list below chronicles the crescendo of growth of as I’ve witnessed it from…
ANESTHEIOLOGIST TRAITS: A desire to be well paid for their time. Physicians earn more for doing procedures than they do sitting in an office…
Kylie, a 28-year-old professional female, recently told me about her experience snorting recreational ketamine: “I was feeling anxious and I was feeling sad. My…
Is it feasible that CHATGPT, this decades artificial intelligence wunderkind, can equal or better a physician anesthesiologist? I entered three anesthesia consultations into CHATGPT,…
America is in the midst of a fentanyl crisis. There were 71,238 fentanyl overdose deaths in the United States in 2021. The Drug Enforcement…
Anesthesiologists at the Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower…
To put Damar Hamlin's resuscitation in context, I'm republishing the following paragraphs from an article I wrote in April 2017 regarding the NFL, anesthesiologists,…
One large subset of anesthesia work closely mimics the lifestyle of dermatology practice. Before you sign up for a lifetime as a dermatologist, consider…
The first episode of House of the Dragon contained a gory scene of an awake Cesarean section. Queen Aemma was in the process of giving…