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Thank you for this thoughtful comment! Although some physicians like Crawford Long (1815-1878) administered surgical anesthesia well before the Civil War, it is true that non-physicians (i.e. nurses, medical students, even patients’ family members!), as well as interns and junior surgeons, predominated in the anesthesia workforce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was the era when open-drop ether, a rudimentary anesthetic modality by today’s standards, was the standard of practice. Nurses were indeed prominent practitioners of anesthesia in the U.S. since the late 19th century. Alice Magaw (1860-1928) and Agatha Hodgins (1877-1945) are prime examples. Organized physician anesthesia in the U.S. began in 1905 with the creation of the Long Island Society of Anesthetists, the earliest precursor of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. But the first national physician anesthesia organization was the American Association of Anesthetists (AAA), founded in 1912 by physicians like James Gwathmey (1862-1944) and Francis McMechan (1879-1939). The video’s mention of the lack of an anesthesiologist in 1923 is not meant to imply that there was an absence of physicians administering anesthesia during that year, but rather to suggest that the numbers were still low. As increasing numbers of physicians specialized in anesthesiology, they began to pioneer scientific advancements that modernized anesthetic practice and transformed it into a medical specialty. The history of anesthesia and anesthesiology in the U.S. is a rich and nuanced one, and both physicians and nurses have contributed to it in different ways.

The AANA (nurse anesthetists) has advocated to use the word “nurse anesthesiologist” so that they can call themselves anesthesiologists, which confuses patients regarding their level of training and expertise. So now we use physician anesthesiologist to indicate we are medical doctors with a different degree of training.

@@sburt1998 There is simply no comparison between the number of hours and level of experience provided by an anesthesiology residency vs the two years of CRNA training. CRNAs play an important role as part of the anesthesiology team, but it’s unfair to patients to think they are speaking to a board certified medical doctor when they are not.

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Medical students learn more than what you have mentioned in your above comment in a single semester....what point are you trying to make?

Why would you feel bad for them? They make the same money and do the same job as a CRNA would. Sounds like a good gig to me. Though, It does suck that they have to fight the nurse lobby to get established in the rest of the states.

I feel bad for anyone who is a nurse. They’ll always be inferior to MD/DO

Guys just STOOP FEELING BAD about any faculty especially when you know nothing plz stop being annoying plz it,s enough . CAA we are the Wright hand of the doctor anesthesia is a *team * and doctor's literally can do nothing without us we need each other bruh and we love that , don't be sad cause with experience for years we can do a lot of thing u don't expect from us to do so again don't feel bad ! Actually we are applying most of the thing that we have being told and some of are dangerous. We do many thingx very important and we know better than doctor to performing it , 6 year studying just anesthesia not like 2 or 4 year time we spend on this will not gone like nothing , not waitng u to say shit actually. Finally i believe in us and education and alot of these year on it are something valuable slso our experience and someday we wil be appreciated. Thanks . 18 years old *ekhlas* student in ma final year of bachelor of anesthesia . Looking for master inshaalah after finshing and gaining some experience. Trying to fixing the fals information about us and sharing awareness. #love .

I don't get the backlash. They study at medical schools like Case Western and Emory.

this is the second video ive seen this guy replying under AA videos. the insecurity proves the potential and future of this career.

because doctors work 80 + hours a week. have to go to school/train for 12+ years , residencies are 100+ a week . AND on top of that take out extreme amounts of student loans (150k-350k) and they're getting less and less money .

Why bother! You can make 100,000+ as a Anesthesiologist Assistants! These secondary position at hospitals are more in demand than physicians are today!

I have several friends who are medical students with over $400,000 in loans. They work tons of hours, no personal life.

salty? you must be a nurse,

Or somebody that failed out

Studies have shown that AA's are proficient anesthesia providers