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On reflection, most people recognize how key experiences altered their paths and gave direction to their lives over years. In an article for Anesthesia News, Lex Hubbard, MD explains how he found his passion for anesthesiology and potential for the specialty. During an interview... Continue Reading

COVID-19 has changed health care, with lasting impacts for anesthesia specialists yet to be fully realized. Telemedicine is here to stay… we have seen the evidence for this in pain medicine and how it was transformed to interact with patients remotely for most follow-up visits... Continue Reading

There are many professional and personal issues to examine when you are seeking to improve your employment conditions. Or, just to overcome what some anesthesia specialists know as “imposter syndrome” where negative patterns of thinking, such as believing others are more talented... Continue Reading

When the COVID-19 epidemic arrived in the United States, we did not have adequate testing capacity, partly because testing depended on a CDC-developed and distributed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test that eventually was found to be faulty, probably as a result of contaminated... Continue Reading

A health care specialty like anesthesiology could adapt to address any pending physician shortage in the coming years. While an anesthesia specialist shortage may affect the specialty, it won’t necessarily be through the inability to meet overwhelming demand. “There may be more... Continue Reading

These recent months battling COVID-19 have been a “once-in-a-lifetime” event for all of us. Our hospitals have all been affected, and thousands of healthcare workers have been infected. Some of us have been deeply affected personally, and there are those who have dealt with the... Continue Reading

American doctors are working in one of the most complex health care systems in the world. Many anesthesia specialists, and physicians in general, are disheartened by our current health care system’s complexity and its all-too-frequent absence of caring and compassion. Theresa... Continue Reading

Commercial applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning have made remarkable progress recently. Meanwhile, much of the public and, of course, the medical community are aware that the physician shortage is worsening, including anesthesia specialists. There are... Continue Reading

It’s good to see how one’s own character traits might impede a lot of the big issues anesthesia specialists face in the operating room, especially in crisis situations. By taking the best and the worst of human personalities and analyzing how those instincts come out in crisis... Continue Reading