A quote every anesthesiologist should know!

Most people’s concept of anesthesiologists is to do surgery when a shot, no pain, sleep is, but in fact it should be: the famous American Chinese anesthesiologist Professor Lee Ching-mu (his son married to the daughter of the former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, once famous) told this story in Shanghai. Many people in the U.S. believe that the work of anesthesiologists, but just to give patients a shot, sleep, so simple, how to get the salary is the first of the U.S. health care industry (average salary)? The vast majority of the guests, overwhelmingly, supported a pay cut for anesthesiologists. At this point, the anesthesiologist present at this debate famously said, “I actually give this shot for free…”. The whole room immediately fell silent. He went on to say, “I give this shot for free, and all I charge, and all I get paid for, is just to watch over the patient after the shot, not to let him/her die from the anesthesia or from bleeding from the surgery, and to make sure that they wake up safely at the end of the surgery. If you think I’m overpaid, that’s fine, I’ll just give the shot and go.” Since then America has stopped debating whether anesthesiologists are paid too much. Because everyone now knows the important role anesthesiologists play in preserving life and health.