RMV->)Anesthesiologists vs. CRNAs
Re: "Are You Prepared for the Anesthesiologist Shortage?" (September, page 28). Why, I wonder, was it not entitled "Are You Prepared for the Anesthesia Provider Shortage?"? Have you been fooled by the doctors' self-promoting line of propaganda? CRNAs do two-thirds of the 26 million anesthetics in the United States each year, and while I do appreciate the fact that you apparently talked to some AANA staffers, the article also quoted a number of anesthesiologists, all of them pushing the fallacious presupposition that MD anesthesia is superior. Where is their proof? If it were, British anesthesia (MD only) would be demonstrably better than American. It isn't. End of argument.

Wayne Johnston, CRNA
Twilight Anesthesia, Inc.
Durango, Colorado
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