Gas in 20 years??

[utlonghorn50]

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Where will gas be in 20 years? Will there be too many anesthesiologists and too little demand (driving down compensation)? This is an honest question. I am considering a career in anes. and was wondering if some people with more knowledge on the subject than I could help me out.

 

[antiadriani]

I am also interested. Not so much as a crna / anesthesiologist job competition, but as far as the non-invasive trends are going in medicine. Will there be less jobs as surgery procedures become less invasive? What about better drugs with less complicated side effects? I know it seems sci-fi, but who ever thought we'd be repairing triple A's in the cath lab...even....5 years ago?

 

[jwk]

I am also interested. Not so much as a crna / anesthesiologist job competition, but as far as the non-invasive trends are going in medicine. Will there be less jobs as surgery procedures become less invasive? What about better drugs with less complicated side effects? I know it seems sci-fi, but who ever thought we'd be repairing triple A's in the cath lab...even....5 years ago?

Less invasive perhaps, but in many procedures, that simply translates to laparoscopy instead of laparotomy, which still requires a general anesthetic. I think we've seen more procedures requiring anesthesia due to the minimally-invasive trend, not less.

 

[UTSouthwestern]

Shades of the '90's. Doomsayers of that time made similar arguments.