When patients undergo general anesthesia, doctors can choose among several drugs. Although each of these drugs acts on neurons in different ways, they all lead to the same result: a disruption of the ...

Some groups have shifts, but many groups assign the anesthesia doctor to an OR (operating room) for the day and the day lasts as long as the cases take. Anesthesiologists are some of the hospital’s ...

Doctors and nurses are fighting over who delivers anesthesia in a conflict over responsibility that is bleeding into other medical practices. “There’s always been a turf war, especially in California, ...