I do not take a patient anywhere near to death. For your education, an anesthesiologist “renders a patient insensible and free from pain” during a surgical procedure. I am a Christian schooled in science and practice my art. Please understand the difference between spewing vitriol and inaccurate statements. If you wish to cast accusations as to my mindset, I welcome you to have surgery without one of my colleagues in attendance. Might I suggest you familiarize yourself with the statements of the American Board of Anesthesiologists and American Society of Anesthesiologists. In none of their statements is that we take a patient near death. However, when seconds count, physician anesthesiologists save lives.
Like too many arrogant ‘doctors’ you presume to tell me what I may think. I have zero respect for you. You presume so much that you are incapable of rational perspective. I expect next you will order me to think of you as a scientist. When I refer to the gas passers, that is not referring to competent, diligent anesthesiologists. But your arrogance prevents you from realizing that. Not one of my twelve surgeries in life has been done without attendance by a competent anesthesiologist, usually overseeing a nurse anesthetist. I have been blessed to avoid the gas passers ...