There were more than 167,000 comments posted to the Federal Register on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) proposal to remove physician anesthesiologists from the OR. And, as was reported in a press release from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), dated July 26, 2016, the public was not impressed with the idea.
Indeed, fully 90% of veterans rejected the proposed rule, and an estimated two-thirds of all comments opposed it.
The proposed policy would replace anesthesiologists