Summary: A Career As An Anesthesiologist

“Anesthesia is quite remarkable. It’s lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.” -Michael Keaton. Humphrey Davy was the first person to learn that nitrous oxide, “laughing gas”, has anesthetic properties. Since then, it has been used to put hundreds of millions of people down for surgeries. Anesthesiologists do a great deal of work, but the education required takes a long time. Once they graduate and start working, they earn a lot of money, and they must have important work values to succeed. Anesthesia itself is very interesting as well. Anesthesiologists do much more work than most people think. Before the patient goes into surgery, the anesthesiologist needs to give him or her anesthesia. Anesthesiologists are a very important part …show more content…
A major is required in either biology or chemistry. According to University of North Dakota, some classes that are taken for a biology major are cell biology, evolution, genetics, ecology, and botany (“Biology: Pre-Health Sciences”). There are many different classes to take to get a Bachelor of Science degree, and once these classes are finished, there is still much more work to be done to become an anesthesiologist. According to RUReadyND, to fully become an anesthesiologist, it would take two to four years in an undergraduate program, four years to get a medical degree, another four years of training after getting a medical degree, and one year after getting a doctorate to specialize in a subsection of anesthesiology (“Anesthesiologist”). This adds up to eleven years, and that is the least amount of time it could take. So, before becoming an anesthesiologist, the person has to be certain that he or she wants to do that. Many professional anesthesiologists recommend experiencing anesthesiology prior to going into that field …show more content…
For example, most surgeries would require putting the patient down for the operation, but some operations can use regional anaesthetic to help the patient manage pain. Sometimes regional anaesthetic can be used in combination with a sedative to put the patient down and help him or her manage pain. Although people understand what anesthesia can be used for, not much about what it actually does to them is fully understood yet. According to Courtney Humphrey, nobody is sure about what actually happens in a person’s brain while he or she is under general anesthesia (“The Mystery Behind Anesthesia”). Understanding more about anesthesia would help scientists greatly, because they would be able to control anesthesia much more simply, and they would likely find better methods of using it. Figuring out what anesthesia does to the brain would not only help people working with anesthesia however. It would uncover secrets about how the brain functions, and people could learn a great deal from that. I think that anesthesia is a very interesting chemical, and the way it works is confusing to many people. Scientists have noticed some things about anesthesia that might indicate how it works and what it does to humans. For example, as Courtney Humphrey stated, when a patient wakes up from general anesthesia, it does not all suddenly occur. It happens in stages almost, with different bodily functions returning slowly (“The Mystery