Just mention AAs and see how the CRNA narratives change. The worst crnas are the ones who think they are as good or better than physicians because they don’t know what they don’t know. They think subbing nursing degree and 2 years of CRNA school makes them equivalent, even call themselves “Doctors” in a clinical setting when they have a PhD. Makes me gag.

Anesthesia providers are not supposed to leave a patient without supervision even for 30 seconds, let alone 12 minutes. In my residency it was a 1x offense you are let go, learned from day 1.

A lot of changes in the last 5-10 years. There’s medical direction vs supervision. I think supervision can be up to 10:1. The doc just signs charts and is around to put out fires but doesn’t know the patients very well.