Two Anesthesiologists on the next Amazing Race

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I think that's great, free PR for our field. Those two are going to represent quite well. Nice.
 
AANA will fund a study to say that CRNAs can finish the amazing race in less time with less money! 🙂
 
sevo85288 said:
AANA will fund a study to say that CRNAs can finish the amazing race in less time with less money! 🙂
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As fat as the ones that I have seen around, it would be amazing to see them finish a 5 minute walk, much less finish a race....
 
IN2B8R said:
As fat as the ones that I have seen around, it would be amazing to see them finish a 5 minute walk, much less finish a race....
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Yeah, they skipped the whole theory part of medicine that educated the rest of us about CAD, HLD, and modifying risk factors.
 
I don't know. Seems like the kind of people who self-select to be on reality TV shows have a high douchebag probability index.

A few years ago a Navy doctor was on The Bachelor. I don't know how the general public received that series but it sure made me embarrassed of the Navy.

Here's to hoping these two don't make anesthesiologists look like ******s.
 
pgg said:
I don't know. Seems like the kind of people who self-select to be on reality TV shows have a high douchebag probability index.

A few years ago a Navy doctor was on The Bachelor. I don't know how the general public received that series but it sure made me embarrassed of the Navy.

Here's to hoping these two don't make anesthesiologists look like ******s.
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Amazing Race actually has some pretty genuine people, compared to many of the other shows.
 
Lol, funny I came across this thread. I just saw them on TV over here in Oz.
 
Not sure if anyone else watched the season, but the finale was tonight and they won the million dollars.
 
zippa said:
Not sure if anyone else watched the season, but the finale was tonight and they won the million dollars.
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They're also the first dual-female team to win in the show's 17 seasons. Congrats to them!
 
I'm a die hard TAR fan, have watched every episode since season 5. Nat and Kat are 2009 grads from UCLA's Anesthesiology Residency Program. In all the seasons I've watched never has a team run a race with more class. They embodied everything you would want in your anesthesiologist - calm, cool, and collected under pressure and at the end of the day infinitely supportive of each other and they had a ton of fun along the way. I can't imagine better PR for the field.
 
etherdreams said:
I'm a die hard TAR fan, have watched every episode since season 5. Nat and Kat are 2009 grads from UCLA's Anesthesiology Residency Program. In all the seasons I've watched never has a team run a race with more class. They embodied everything you would want in your anesthesiologist - calm, cool, and collected under pressure and at the end of the day infinitely supportive of each other and they had a ton of fun along the way. I can't imagine better PR for the field.
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It continually amazes me how the "cool, calm, collected" personality trait stereotype truly resonates throughout the field of anesthesiology (for the most part), and on the TAR, it was displayed in a much different atmosphere than the OR. It truly takes a certain personality type to become a successful anesthesiologist.
And I have never once bashed CRNA's on this forum, but honestly, having started intern yr and worked along-side the "militant" nurses in the ICU with dreams of becoming CRNA's, I cannot help but shake my head in fear of what could become of this specialty if these people are given independent practice completely. I mean seriously, the reason the practice has become so safe is because of the cool headed anesthesiologists who made it that way. Most of these nurses practice "icu nursing" in fear, never sure of themselves, and take out their inferiority complex frustrations on the interns and residents..its laughable when I watch them display their inferior skill set. Anyways, I'll stop at that in order not to take away from Nat & Kat's TAR victory.
It would be great PR for our field. Especially on the national stage..maybe the ASA can get these amazing women to be the face of some of their national campaigns. Classy ladies who can speak on the necessity of physician anesthesiologists overseeing the practice of anesthesiology. Instead of militant nurses, claiming to be a cheaper alternative, when that is a blatant lie and moreover they are not a safer alternative.
 
zippa said:
Not sure if anyone else watched the season, but the finale was tonight and they won the million dollars.
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That gamble paid off. Even after taxes, splitting the mil was more than they would have made their first year out of practice.

Unless they could have received extra cash for their hawtness.
 
Nat & Kat are awesome people, this is well-deserved for them. Goes to show how far teamwork and a positive attitude will take you in life.
 
Apollyon said:
I don't know - $1mil - 33% =~ $667,000/2 =~ $333K each. Really?
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that would be money AFTER taxes. in california, the government takes HALF of your earnings. which means that they would've needed a gig which paid 600 k to make the same type of dough.
 
Bertelman said:
Hey, that's cool. I was afraid Emergency grads were getting paid large these days. Didn't sound like you were satisfied with $500.
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If I was hitting 500 large, I would be deliriously (literally) happy. I might have to be admitted on my days off because of the perma-smile. Where I am now, I can't even see half a mil from where I'm standing.
 
Nat's listed as being 31 on the CBS site? If she graduated medical school in 2001, that would make her 22 at the time. Either she's a genius or doing some Hollywood age manipulation. Sorry, just hating :laugh:.
 
Vie221 said:
Nat's listed as being 31 on the CBS site? If she graduated medical school in 2001, that would make her 22 at the time. Either she's a genius or doing some Hollywood age manipulation. Sorry, just hating :laugh:.
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not sure where you're getting 2001, but what do i know. thought she finished residency in 2009. could easily be 31yo. just go straight through.
 
OK, not sure why I bothered to check this but I guess the group she's working in messed up her bio by listing her graduation year as 2001. The California medical board lists her as having graduated from Mayo in 2005 so that would make more sense. I guess she did her residency at UCLA and went back for a pain fellowship at Mayo after that. So she didn't graduate at 22 but her resume is still pretty impressive.

Now I feel like a stalker.
 
Apollyon said:
If I was hitting 500 large, I would be deliriously (literally) happy. I might have to be admitted on my days off because of the perma-smile. Where I am now, I can't even see half a mil from where I'm standing.
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Just curious, but what do EM guys make? I have some former residency classmates (we rotated as interns together) who are pulling $200/hr + bennies, as many hours as they want, in rural USA.

Is this atypical?
 
Coastie said:
Just curious, but what do EM guys make? I have some former residency classmates (we rotated as interns together) who are pulling $200/hr + bennies, as many hours as they want, in rural USA.

Is this atypical?
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$200/hr + bennies is really good - that's almost $300K for a not-crushing 30hrs/week, plus a value-added estimate of $50/hr for bennies (401-k/403, health insurance, life, disability, profit sharing, use of the company condo, hookers, strippers, generally naked people). It would be GREAT just as an IC.

It is a bit atypical - it's partly the payor mix, as the line tips from suburban/rural to just rural where they won't pony up for an EM-trained doc, and will take someone with not quite as good a fit (like you can use your shoe to pound a nail, but a hammer is best). $150/hr is a more in-line number. As is true with EM and Anes jobs, if someone's laying out the long green for the job, there's a reason they have to pay out the nose to get someone to work there. Again, a parallel between EM and Anes is that the best jobs are not advertised.
 
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