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Then what's the difference between an Anesthesiologist and a crna? Knowing more anesthetic drugs and their side effects?
Being able to make and adjust a plan intelligently by using your medical knowledge instead of doing things algorithmically only by watching what other people do. Being able to recognize when a patient is about to die from monitoring subtle signs. Understanding the important details about drugs to optimize patient care. Being able to handle extremely dangerous situations alone and keep the patient alive while you have them open on a table with people inside of them. Knowing more in general about the human body and having a much more thorough education
Just because a textbook exists doesn't mean people will read them or that if they do read them, that they will get the same thing out of it. We have students from the same medical schools taking the same classes and looking at the same resources but end up scoring differently on tests and have differing amounts of knowledge and ability