How many of you have not been able to get a drug you needed to properly deliver anesthesia to a patient?†I asked. Every hand in the room went up. “How did that affect your patients?†I asked. “Two of our patients died,†one woman answered. I was speaking to a group of nurse anesthetists, enrolled in a business management program at Marshall University in West Virginia. I wish I could say their experience is unusual. It isn’t. About 90 percent of all the anesthesiologists in the country report they are experiencing a shortage of at least one anesthetic. Drug...