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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Just to add to what a lot of other people have already said.
An anaesthetists job starts way before you get put under. My department does exercise test prior to major abdominal or thoracic surgery to help in pre-operative planning. Anaesthetists help manage more high-risk patients doing this test and go through the risks of surgery with them, giving them a much better picture of the surgical risks involved in the decision of whether to operate or not.
Suffice to say, they don’t just turn up at the operation with no input beforehand.
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