Antique Chinese Diagnostic Dolls

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The American Surgeon, 2017

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Anesthesiology, 2008

Tennessee medicine : journal of the Tennessee Medical Association, 2005

++Title Slide++# 1 I administered my very first human anesthesia in 1956, and I continuously practiced anesthesiology forty five years, beginning July 1, l958. I have been asked dozen of times why I chose anesthesiology, and why I stayed in the specialty. The answer to the first question is easy-"to avoid destroyer duty." You see I was in the Navy. The Navy needed either destroyer doctors or anesthesiology residents and of course, the choice was easy. ++Slide of young Smith and Navy destroyer ship++#2 However, I eventually made my way onto several destroyers on special duty…but that's a story for another day! I have often avoided answering the second question. As a wise man once said: "When you are up to your waist in alligators, it is difficult to objectively review your decision to drain the swamp" [Carnes]#. As I now emerge from that swamp, I can at last offer a hindsight answer: I am unabashedly proud to have been an anesthesiologist these forty five years. I'm not only proud of the medical details of our everyday practice, but I'm proud of my anesthesiology colleagues. I am proud of your talents; proud of the thousands of personal sacrifices I have seen you make for your patients; and I am proud of the gifts that you and your forebears have contributed to Mankind. As I look back on the multiple and varied accomplishments of Anesthesiology, not only just in my own professional lifetime, but throughout our existence the picture emerges of a dedicated group struggling toward the achievement of the status of "professionalism" in anesthesiology. In 1940, on the very first page of the first issue of our now highly respected journal "Anesthesiology", Howard W. Haggard deeply explored many of the problems in professionality facing clinical practitioners of anesthesiology. Sadly, many of his observations are distressingly familiar and unsolved even today 1940 [Haggard]! Admitting that, I nontheless believe that, although the struggle continues, we in anesthesiology have realized many amazing victories. I intend to point out a sampling of these successes to you today, and to try to convince you that the attainment of "professionalism" in anesthesiology is an ongoing struggle which is not only worthwhile, but one to which you each have a duty to contribute. 2 ++Slide: Defining Professionalism"++#3 What IS "professionalism", and why do I value it so highly? Recently Dr. Mark Lema, former editor of the ASA Newsletter, suggested a comprehensive list of many characteristics of professional behavior in anesthesiology [Lema]. Dr. John Steinhaus, my friend and former ASA President, uses an entire chapter of his book "Medical Care Divided", to attempt to describe "professionalism" in anesthesiology [Steinhaus]. Dr. Norig Ellison, another past ASA president has contributed yet another good discussion [Ellison].

Pain Practice, 2001

that the laterally directed cervical epidural catheter was an effective technique to produce continuous unilateral analgesia and sympathetic block.

Pain Practice, 2001

that the laterally directed cervical epidural catheter was an effective technique to produce continuous unilateral analgesia and sympathetic block.

Anesthesiology, 1997

Bulletin of Anesthesia History, 2013

The absence of a recognized formal curriculum in anesthesia history means that many of us have known and unknown gaps in our knowledge. These gaps limit our ability to understand how things came to be, how things may become and how we can affect the future. I have asked Dr. Manisha Desai and Dr. Sukumar Desai to provide a primer on the history of medicine and anesthesia history. The goals of this primer are to educate and to help individuals target future study. Below is the second article in a continuing series.