Why are anesthesiologists paid that much?

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I’m not saying they don’t deserve it, obviously I know they have our lives between their hands. To my knowledge, they base their calculations around our weights and heights. What else makes it so difficult?

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most money in medicine is in surgery. Anesthesia makes lots of surgery possible (plus most run or supervise multiple rooms w/ CRNA or AA in room).

That said, I think it’s insane when they make more for a surgery than the surgeon, but it’s an artifact for the archaic RUC RVU calculation system we have

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