Because surgeons would be (nearly) useless without them.
I went under the knife a week ago to have plates put in my broken wrist, they did a nerve block on the whole arm, then put me under general anesthesia.
2 hours later I was awake, alert, and in no pain after having my wrist filleted open and rearranged with two plates and 12 screws. Two days after that I was off the narcotic painkillers and only taking Motrin and Tylenol Arthritis.
The surgeon was amazing, but the anesthesiologist is what makes them able to perform these surgeries safely and with far fewer complications.
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