Category: opt out

Anesthesia propaganda continues

Quite an inflammatory post over there at Slate.com.  Essentially the same same CRNA=MD drivel that has been coming out this past year.  This time it is directed at interventional pain physicians.  The factual errors will make any reader cringe regardless of your slant.  The comments are also worth a quick scroll. 
I hesitate to highight such nonsense but I figured its good to know what is being said about you.  Timmy Noah should have his crayons and scrap paper taken away.

Nov 12, 2010 | 0 comments View Post

Colorado becomes 16th state to opt-out of CRNA supervision requirement

The Colorado state board has spoken and MDs, you are eliminated. Ok not eliminated, but close enough. From the Governer’s press release:

Gov. Bill Ritter announced today that Colorado will opt out of a federal Medicare rule that requires physician supervision in rural hospitals for certified registered nurse anesthetists. Colorado will join 15 other states – many of them large, Western and rural – that have opted out of the rule since it became an option in 2001.

I’d include more of the press release but the part about enhancing patient safety makes me sick.  I would love to see a politician be honest for once.  I mean really, if patient safety were priority number one does it really make sense to turn your life over to a nurse over an MD.  Yes, I know the joke of study published recently would like everyone to believe that safety is the same.  I call BS on that one.

Sep 28, 2010 | 3 comments View Post