I have to agree with you too Me. As long as I provide excellent care to my patient 1st! and earn my six figures $100,000-$210,000 + annually that I am allowed to make in the ACT I'm very grateful and happy. I feel in my opinion the anesthesiologist M.D./D.O. deserve to earn what they are entitle to with their knowledge, expertise, years of school and sacrifice they had to endure to earn the right to be called "DOCTOR". They deserve all the full benefits M.D./D.O. and "RESPECT".
Do I feel a anesthesiologist should earn $400,000, $500,000 $600,000 + or $1,000,000,000 annually YES! just as surgeons earn. I can't imagine a person coming in the O.R. with a GSW (Gun Shot Wound to the chest x3 Surgery) or a CAB (Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery) and not being under anesthesia trust me they wouldn't survive.
The bottom line is "Anesthesia Rules & Rocks #1" even the surgeon couldn't perform with out Anesthesia M.D., D.O., A.A.-C. C.R.N.A. when performing major surgery.