The human factor of anesthesia and patient care

The human factor of anesthesia and patient care Autor: J. Antonio Aldrete 1a ed., 2005; 173 páginas 15.5 x 22.5 cm; rústica ISBN: 968-7620-17-X Editorial Alfil While interviewing numerous medical students contemplating anesthesiology as their future specialty, one definite concern frequently surfaces. In their abstract idealism they expressed, in one way or another, a genuine preoccupation for the amount of patient contact afforded by anesthesiologists in their daily practice. Though the acute care and prompt problem solving of our specialty attracted them, what they have seen and/or heard in their experience at medical school regarding anesthesiologists being in contact only with sleeping patients, caused them alarm. That image hangs on us, justifiably or not, but it does and must be changed.