Soaring drug prices and persistent drug shortages during 2015-2017, including those for important anesthesia drugs, led one-fourth of United States hospitals to reduce staff to cope with the financial pressure, according to a study commissioned by the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) and the American S...

Ah. The future. What's it have in store for your anesthesia practice and what must you do to prepare your group for it? Some think that the future will be a continuation of the present, or, even worse, a return to an idealized past. They're both wrong.But the present does hold clues as to what the future will bring, and based on them, I'll make som...

In her blog, A Penned Point, early this year, Karen Sibert, MD, president of the California Society of Anesthesiologists, asked her fellow specialists to take some time during Physician Anesthesiologists Week to celebrate the specialty's accomplishments, but also to reflect on the state of the profession today, the anesthesiologist's place in the c...