Anaesthesiologists are viewed as being liabilities by MBAs who run administration in the corporate hospitals. This is probably because they do not understand that surgical branches are interdependent. Over time, anaesthesia salaries and perks have stagnated, while risks and responsibilities have only gone up. While the sky is the limit for surgeons in corporate hospitals, the perioperative physicians are treated badly.
Very few of us now actually recommend this branch to PG aspirants. Because the way I see it, these non-clinical MBAs are the actual parasites in the medical profession. Are corporate hospitals throttling the field of perioperative medicine because of their own ignorance?
