Out of curiosity- are we including anesthesia sub- and supersub- specialties in this conversation? Or is all of this restricted to the private practice, general anesthesia arena?
Short-term the latter, long-term the former. After they finish playing the DNP game, they will start playing the "fellowship" game. I can see OB, regional and pain becoming
very threatened by that, in the future. Whatever needs more technical skill than medical knowledge is in danger, not only in anesthesia (yes, surgeons, I am talking about you). We are dealing with people who are less book smart than us, on average, but equally if not more skillful with their hands, and definitely more street smart. Plus they have the support of their brethren in management, and of bean counters everywhere.
They won't stop until they reach their maximal level of incompetence, at which point, maybe, maybe, the public will do something about them. But they will keep hiding behind our skirts until they feel secure they can take over.
The only way to stop them is to stop working with
any of them, period. Whenever you supervise them, you teach them, passively. This entire PC pacifist movement towards embracing them should stop. 80+% have militant psychology, just not in our face.
Again, our leaders could not care less. All they care about is making their usual amounts of money and surviving till retirement, grunts be damned.
We need to unionize nationally and get them out of our shops, even take lower salaries if needed, whatever it takes. They need to become unemployed in large numbers, and hence discourage new generations from wasting money on CRNA school.
STOP TEACHING THEM AND ALLOWING THEM TO LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDERS! Their schools are so weak that 90% of what they know is stolen from us, after graduation. Nobody has it as good as them: it's like we are keeping them in a supervised "residency" cocoon for decades. No surprise that, after a while, they feel they could do whatever we do (our CA-3's live with the same illusion after only 2.5 years).