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1. Gross inconsistencies
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DO NOT make up numbers to amp up your scare tactics. FACT: CRNAs in the U.S. are ALL board certified. Board certification is not required to become an anesthesiologist. NOT all anesthesiologist are board ...

2. Sounds like an MDA pretending to be a CRNA
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Elizabeth, You my dear are a phony.. You are no more a CRNA than I am the president of the USA. Sorry Dr. Anesthesiologist, you probably didn't pass your boards and you didn't pass this test either. Go ...

3. the data doesn't lie
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... That shoudl send up the red flag for sure. Lastly, NJ is the only state to require anesthesiologist supervision, or anesthesiologist job protection. If anesthesia was safer with an MDA, or if CRNAs ...

4. Trane--"Trane" harder in clinical before you kill someone.
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...  Good for you, you're a learner.....but you lack both critical thinking, common sense and the ability to see sarcasm....no anesthesiologist would be put in that situation..to perform a "C". Sorry ...

5. You're right
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An anesthesiologist would know that performing an emergency C-section is beyond their scope of practice and their fund of medical knowledge and training. Any anesthesiologist who would attempt this deserves ...

6. Jonathan Deutsch
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... favor of this stance. Moreover, I do agree that Medicare fraud is a problem, and I am sure that both anesthesiologists and independent nurse anesthetists have manipulated the system in the past to their ...

7. The completely obvious
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... facts....CRNA's provided great care in this country long before anesthesiologists since the late 1890s....so take your banter somewhere else...I have patients to take care of mine..... ...

8. Razor, please
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With regard to a C-Section....neither can the anesthesiologist. You should have been a surgeon, you certainly have the ego.... ...

9. Trane
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... those with objectivity...usually those who are not CRNAs or anesthesiologists...favor working together, respectfully - not unwarranted supervision rules which allow individuals to manipulate insurance ...

10. Numbers don't lie (Part 2)
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Facts are facts. Anesthesiologists are physicians first and foremost who have during the course of their medical education and training actually participated in a surgery, delivered a baby, treated a ...

11. Numbers don't lie (Part 1)
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There are many opinions but these are the facts: Anesthesiologists (physicians) must complete a 4 year pre-med college curriculum making stellar grades, take the extremely difficult MCAT test to get ...

12. Misrepresentation
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... who believe this; other than some of the CRNAs on that thread (some do not support this notion). Really bad example to choose. Most anesthesiologists do not believe this. ...

13. Eric C
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... not waste time bashing other professions, and nether will I. Autonomous practices are the future. If you don't believe me, ask the professionals - CRNAs and anesthesiologists - who say so. h ...

14. Where to draw the line?
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... be an anesthesiologist. Being entitled to the best health care money can buy is the American way and I won't accept less. That is why I have a cardiologist managing my hypertension. Unfortunately the uneducated ...

15. Interesting
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... this world. What Doctors due on a daily basis in all specialties is not curing disease it is managing pathology. So is it any different when an anesthesiologist manages intra-operative heart failure, ...

16. Excellent
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As many anesthesiologists have commented on their immense worth, my comments will be brief. In my time delivering anesthesia, I've seen many CRNAs and MDAs, some excellent, some horrible. Indeed, ...

17. CRNAs do not equate with Anesthesiologists
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... and cesarean section, and more difficult surgeries or patients for anesthesia care. They do not equate with physicians, and especially CRNAs do not equate with Anesthesiologists. The study that Knowlton ...

18. CRNA Degree online
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... a medical doctor. There are other health care professionals enititled to use that title. Sounds like you may be a little scared of your job security -- are you an anesthesiologist? ...

19. Not sure where to begin
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... physicians. Are you aware that it is an anesthesiologist who heads up this Leapfrog committee? So patients in ICU's deserve a physician /anesthesiologist but not in the OR?? Seems a bit of a double ...

20. Yea, Loud and Poorly Informed
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As a physician, let me comment on your argument that, "what you needed my friend was Blood Products, A call the surgeon should have made." As a physician anesthesiologist, in 8 years I have NEVER ...