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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Anesthesiologist here.
Another thing I like to point out to people is for a healthy, straight forward patient, for a straight forward surgery you can train even a lay person to perform that anesthesia relatively safely in a couple weeks.
Why you want the 4 years undergrad/4 years med school/4 years anesthesia residency/sometimes an additional year of fellowship training is for when expected or unexpected things happen. The healthiest person for the easiest surgery can have unknown allergies or genetics that could cause serious complications intra-operatively. Surgeries can go wrong. As our population ages many patients have a myriad of co-morbidities. You want someone taking care of you or loved one that knows what to do in these situations. You want somebody that doesn’t expose the patient to unnecessary vascular access/procedures if not needed but knows when it’s required. You want someone that knows when a patient should be undergoing further preoperative testing or intervention. You want someone that has done thousands of procedures and in the beginning even failed at them to know what plan A, B, C, D is in the event of problems.
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