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WILL CRNAs REPLACE MD ANESTHESIOLOGISTS?

The Anesthesia Consultant

An individual who is not a doctor interviews you, it’s usually quite clear by their nametag and by their verbal introduction whether they are a physician, a nurse, a physician assistant, or a nurse practitioner. The column said, “ the anesthesia care team model will be the end of physician anesthesiologists.

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IS ANESTHESIA AN ART OR A SCIENCE?

The Anesthesia Consultant

4) The promotion of non-physicians into the workforce to perform roles previously handled by MDs. Due to an inadequate supply of primary care doctors, the future of clinic medicine in large corporate medical practices will likely be legions of nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants supplying much of primary care.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE

The Anesthesia Consultant

Expect to see the development of increasingly cheaper AIM devices to augment the skills of human physicians, or maybe replace them in some job descriptions. The most popular posts for laypeople on The Anesthesia Consultant include: How Long Will It Take To Wake Up From General Anesthesia?