not that you would actually read (or understand) it but a study out of ohio, from 99-03 reviewed 23k cases of AA vs CRNA's and result...no difference, ya look it up it exists. DD, you have made everyone on this site see that you are obviously an uninformed, maladjusted, bitter little man who wished that he went to med school instead of nursing back in the day. You are upset now that there is a profession that puts out anesthesia providers that didn't have to wipe butt and still make the same amount of money you do. Well from all of us AA's, i would like to say, sorry but we did put our time in. We did it in the form of taking more difficult science/math classes in college, we did it in the form of going through a grouling 2.5 years of grad school where we were in school or clinicals from 6:30am till 5 or 6 pm five days a week only to have no choice but to stay up late every night studying our @%#'s off for the test of quiz that hit us weekly if not daily. Back when i was a resp therapist in the icu doing things that the icu nurses couldn't (like intubating, starting art lines, running the ventilators etc.) i would have liked to take the easier route of going to crna school and take such classes as Nurse theory, but of course your AANA couldn't allow that, unless i wanted to go backwards and work as a nurse for six months first. You want to complain, then look at your AANA and ask them why shouldn't people with extensive critical care experience be allowed to be CRNA's. They want you and everyone else to think that being an Rn has some majical way of making you a better anesthetist when i've seen many crna's that should never have gotten off the floors.