It's Physician Anesthesiologists Week!!!!

[chocomorsel]

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Apparently that's a thing now, according to the ABA, all of next week.

Really though?

 

[IMGASMD]

Right after the CRNA week I’ve been celebrating all week.

 

[chocomorsel]

Right after the CRNA week I’ve been celebrating all week.

You mean Nurse Anesthesiologists week?

 

[GaseousClay]

we are a joke to even our boarding association. SAD!

 

[Consigliere]

For the life of me, I CANNOT think of anything dumber than this. With all our advanced technology, science still has not devised a method to detect how little I care about "Physician Anesthesiologists Week."

 

[deleted643396]

It’s stupid that this is even a thing. It’s even stupider that our own board is further differentiating us from other physicians. Isn’t there already a Doctor day?

At the very least I hope I can get a stale bagel in the lounge out of this.

 

[bronx43]

It’s stupid that this is even a thing. It’s even stupider that our own board is further differentiating us from other physicians. Isn’t there already a Doctor day?

At the very least I hope I can get a stale bagel in the lounge out of this.

They're not differentiating you guys from other physicians (in which case, they would simply call it anesthesiologist week). They are differentiating you from the other anesthesiologists. You know... of the nursing kind.

 

[chocomorsel]

Some of us don't even see the irony. I don't know if that's the right terminology but for sure there's something wrong with the board embracing that title.

 

[Psai]

Why can't they do something useful like get rid of the stupid osces

 

[narcotics999]

Why can't they do something useful like get rid of the stupid osces

$ and power, my friend.

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[MoMoGesiologist]

So is the point of this week to remind people that anesthesiologists are physicians? Or to confuse people that nurses can be anesthesiologists too...?

 

[GaseousClay]

No wonder CRNAs win this battle. These fools leading the ASA and ABA are so out of touch. ASA has it spewing all over their website. physician anesthesiologist week (aka WE ARE DOCTORS, WE PROMISE!)

 

[kidthor]

Does the celebration of Physician Anesthesiologists Weep include doing MOCA Minute (TM, xoxo) while trouncing on our souls (to the fullest conceivable realms of their license)?

Yay!!!

 

[DirtDocMD]

In celebration of Physician Anesthesiologist Week, here’s some $800 CME you can do to maintain MOCA. Feel free to work on it when you’re not busy signing charts for the AMC that presently employs you, which, in the spirit of cost cutting, has helped further the encroachment of nurse anesthetists into our area of expertise. Sorry we couldn’t do more from our academic ivory towers to help you private guys with that.

Sincerely,
The Academic/Government Anesthesiologist Leadership of the ASA

 

[2Fast2Des]

I love the signs in the OR, or forms that say doctors, anesthesiologists, and other personnel, have to follow so and so protocol or whatever. They clearly separate us from being physicians. Or when the nursing staff refers you as anesthesia and calls the surgeon as doctor. I think the administration doesn't give 2 sh*ts about this week or in general about our presence.

 

[deleted87051]

I don’t care as long as there is cake and pizza.

 

[psychbender]

I love the signs in the OR, or forms that say doctors, anesthesiologists, and other personnel, have to follow so and so protocol or whatever. They clearly separate us from being physicians. Or when the nursing staff refers you as anesthesia and calls the surgeon as doctor. I think the administration doesn't give 2 sh*ts about this week or in general about our presence.

Where I work, I have two separate logins for the EMR. I login as anesthesiologist for the OR, and login as Physician in the ICU...

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[deleted87051]

Where I work, I have two separate logins for the EMR. I login as anesthesiologist for the OR, and login as Physician in the ICU...

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That’s understandable. We use different templates and have different EMR needs than most other docs.

 

[chocomorsel]

That’s understandable. We use different templates and have different EMR needs than most other docs.

If it's just one computer system, it can easily be done with one username, title and password.
Quite frankly, I have never used a login that required me to identify my role.
I have used the same system in the OR and the ICU/Floor and it was all the same login.

Our appreciation luncheon got cancelled for bad weather and rescheduled for next month. It was sunny, cold and no snow even ever hit the ground.

 

[AdmiralChz]

Where I work, I have two separate logins for the EMR. I login as anesthesiologist for the OR, and login as Physician in the ICU...

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That’s more about the interface rather than role. Our surgeons log in as “proceduralist” for periop charting and “physician” for consults and clinic visits. The NPs that do the bone marrow biopsies log in the same way, as proceduralists.

 

[dannyboy1]

I get paid this week and that is the only recognition/appreciation that I need ....

 

[Psai]

I get paid this week and that is the only recognition/appreciation that I need ....

I dunno I kinda like the sound of cake and pizza

 

[IlDestriero]

I celebrate doctors day.
Our society is a joke.
I can’t wait to not need to recertify so I can stop giving them any of my money.

 

[Psai]

I celebrate doctors day.
Our society is a joke.
I can’t wait to not need to recertify so I can stop giving them any of my money.

I just found out from wikipedia that doctors day is on the day that general anesthesia was first used on a patient. Put some respek on it

 

[Mr.S]

I celebrate doctors day.
Our society is a joke.
I can’t wait to not need to recertify so I can stop giving them any of my money.

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[Beeftenderloin]

I just found out from wikipedia that doctors day is on the day that general anesthesia was first used on a patient. Put some respek on it

How’s this for some respek.

https://blogs.nejm.org/now/index.php/the-most-important-article-in-nejm-history/2012/11/01/

Most important article in the history of modern medicine voted for by the NEJM readership was the first anesthetic.

No, it doesn’t put more cheddar in your pocket, or keep CRNAs and clipboard warriors off our tail. Still pretty cool though.

 

[MoMoGesiologist]

Our people have always been at the forefront of medical advancement and patient safety: ICUs, pulse ox, etCO2, transfusing less, etc. We continue to be to this day despite how it may seem (Ps I acknowledge I have contributed nothing but sarcasm).

What are nurses great contributions to pt care? AAORN recommendations we all shave our eye brows and wear space suits to the OR, maximizing the number of spots in the chart to write "MD aware", and telling us the patient's pain score is 6/10 and it doesn't matter they are asleep, we need to give narcotics! (I acknowledge nurses actually have done a lot and take great care of patients, just some of them drive me bonkers!)

 

[Psai]

I just found out that physician anesthesiologists week was already a thing

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[deleted126335]

That resolution and $4 will get you a cup of coffee.