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• n  a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated

• Result of anesthetist Ruth's editing was a 21 7-page survey of anesthetics, their purposes, ad ministration, risks.
• Instead of clapping an ether cone over his face, the anesthetist slipped a hypodermic needle into a vein in the crook of his elbow.
• Axham served as his anesthetist.

• anesthesiologist
• anaesthetist

News & Articles

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• Ex-nurse takes back testimony in hepatitis C case
  A registered nurse who was fired from a Las Vegas outpatient medical clinic just prior to a 2007 hepatitis C outbreak returned to the witness stand Monday to tell a state court jury he misspoke when he testified that he saw a former nurse anesthetist reusing needles and syringes on multiple patients.
  June 10, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun

Quotes

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• Ben Broussard in Seattle Times
  I wanted to be a doctor, that's what I was doing it for,Broussard said. "Nursing was possibly something that I could do along with baseball - get out quick and then make some money. I was thinking about possibly being a nurse anesthetist...