"Anesthesia Anxiety" featuring Dr. Dinner (AnesthesiaMD)

[mahmud975]

Oh hai! Have you considered anxiety zero technique (I think its at anxiety0.info)? Ive heard some great things about it and my mate pretty much cured anxiety with it.

[jerryjohnston2009]

Phillip-I'm commenting on a profession that I'm very familiar with and lots of anesthesiologists share my view; perhaps a little less rabid. Some want to practice anesthesiology not supervise nurses. It's a sad fact that the main reason for having an MDA supervising CRNA's in an outpatient setting is to generate another bill; the "supervision" is very thin; to the point of being non-existant. ANd patient care has suffered by the dilution of substituting a CRNA (nurse) for a MDA.

[goex2f]

Misscherrie-most patients are lucky if they see their anesthesiologist for even 5 minutes before surgery, and this "exam" is only for billing purposes; the anesthesia is provided by a nurse (CRNA) and that gets really dangerous. "untrusting" of doctors? I would tell you my profession, but you would flip out....I have some experience in this area. best

[MiSSCHERRi09]

I can't believe some of these people : Like how can you degrade a profession? That is rude and insulting to those docters and aspiring ones. SMH

[jerryjohnston2009]

"anesthesiologists" are a joke; they don't practice, they remotely "supervise" CRNA's and God help the poor patient if something goes wrong with 2 cases at one time................

[phillipngyn]

why don't you go to med school or nursing school and try to be specialize in anesthesia, wait you not smart enough.

[lycrahoofie]

@phillipngyn Dude seriously you don't need to be smart to do this job... grabage men are more skilled.. and they don't ask you to kiss their asses or charge three times the normal fee..

[lycrahoofie]

Well I agree with him but only if you have a good anesthetist. I wasn't afraid before my operation but when I woke up I could hear my anesthetist standing a foot away from my bed saying nasty and derogatory things about me. I will never trust an anesthetist again.

[MiSSCHERRi09]

That is rude. I would feel the same way if that happened to me!

[oneredtruck2]

did u confront him with the doctors and nurses or did u let it go? JUST wondering

[lycrahoofie]

I did, report her. I had her investigated by the state government because when I required pain drugs after having nerves severed and ending up permamantly disabled she called me a "junky" in front of other patients then deliberately gave me morphine which i am allergic to and made me puke my guys out. After I complained she wrote me an abusive letter.

[chompsalot1]

What can go wrong?

[goex2f]

Fear of the unknown is a healthy thing; anesthesia practitioners often only see the patient 5 minutes before surgery, aren't available for qestions beforehand (the patient often can't even meet the anesthesia person before until the day of surgery)...no wonder so many people have awful experiences with anesthesia....Unless things change in the field of anesthesia, I would never trust my life to people who caer so little about my history and safety.....

[MiSSCHERRi09]

That is not true actually they meet with the patient beforehand to complete a medical evaluation. Which I am certain would take longer than five minutes. And if you are so untrusting of them why don't you take it upon yourself to schedule an appointment with one to learn about them beforehand. It isn't right to down an entire profession off of your experiences or thoughts. Yes you can have an opinion by all means go crazy with it, but to say they are uncaring about the patient id outright rude.

[MiSSCHERRi09]

Also, then you must be untrusting of docters right? Because they are pretty much the same. I do not believe you have done your research. I am sorry to sound so mean it's just I am really interested in this career, and I would NEVER want my patients to think of me as you do anesthesiologist. Please do not take my comment the wrong way ; I am just a concerned person. Thank You and have a nice day =]

[adavis155]

i like docter dinner