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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

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. Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia?

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE

The Anesthesia Consultant

Shifting these jobs to allied healthcare providers such as physician assistants or nurse practitioners is a cheaper alternative, but what could be cheaper than an AIM machine module which either assists one physician to evaluate a vast number of patients, or an AIM module of the future which replaces the physician entirely?