Anesthesiologists = Drug addicts?

[Inkabellous]

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I've found this article on MSN news and it is pretty shocking to see that many anesthesiologists are addicted to drugs they use in the OR. Here's some background of the anesthesiologist featured in the news:

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"Dr. Junig was already a star when he arrived at the University of Rochester medical school in 1982. While a freshman at Carroll College, he'd become a statewide media sensation for risking his life to swim out to a drowning woman in a flooded, rampaging river and pull her back to shore. At Rochester, he rocketed to the top of his class and graduated with both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuroscience, winning an armful of awards for outstanding achievement in anatomy, physiology and clinical teaching.

He married, had the first of three children and landed a coveted residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania before becoming a full anesthesiologist in Wisconsin in the early '90s...."
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You can check out the article at

http://health.msn.com/general/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100148089

 

[jwk]

I've found this article on MSN news and it is pretty shocking to see that many anesthesiologists are addicted to drugs they use in the OR. Here's some background of the anesthesiologist featured in the news:

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"Dr. Junig was already a star when he arrived at the University of Rochester medical school in 1982. While a freshman at Carroll College, he'd become a statewide media sensation for risking his life to swim out to a drowning woman in a flooded, rampaging river and pull her back to shore. At Rochester, he rocketed to the top of his class and graduated with both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuroscience, winning an armful of awards for outstanding achievement in anatomy, physiology and clinical teaching.

He married, had the first of three children and landed a coveted residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania before becoming a full anesthesiologist in Wisconsin in the early '90s...."
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You can check out the article at

http://health.msn.com/general/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100148089

This link is a reprint of an article in Men's Health that has already been discussed ad nauseum in this forum.

Here's a hint young pre-health (field undecided) - Don't depend on mass market media for accurate healthcare information. To save you the trouble of doing a search, follw this link...

http://www.asahq.org/news/lemaletter110606.htm

 

[The_Sensei]

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