Posted by stanley kristiansen on January 14, 2008, 10:00 pm, in reply to "Re: Apples to apples"
Wrong again, in a supervised position a CRNA is still liable for a bad outcome, no I was following orders allowed. By bad outcome I mean an anesthetic that was poorly given or a complication untreated, such as no beta blocker in acute MI just because the MDA does not believe in it. In the second part it is more and more common to see hospitals hiring both and both doing there own cases, no supervision. The ACT model is NOT law, but custom foisted on the world by the ASA. Nowhere in the country is a CRNA mandated to be supervised by an MDA and 15 states 0 supervision of any kind is necessary. Your point is no one is independent of doctors. Well no one is independent of anyone really that is why it is called a health care SYSTEM. Independence in this case is about practice and the ability to do so and the autonomy of practice, not whether the other practitioner exists. God your apples to apples is so inane.