With less time and money, it will become more difficult for researchers to publish and gain promotion within the tenure system. Involvement with state and national anesthesia societies, lecturing and article reviews help create visibility in the academic community. External Issues Patients and Their Care Patient care and safety are always of utmost concern. Anesthesia services in all modes of practice must be provided in a safe, timely and courteous manner. Failure to provide a full range of quality anesthesia services is cause for major upheavals in anesthesiology departments.
Patients often recognize extra warmth and comfort.
It is rewarding to have patients request a certain anesthesiologist for themselves or their loved ones based on positive prior encounters. Surveys of patient satisfaction are often continuously undertaken by hospitals. Every aspect of a patient's experience can be evaluated, analyzed and used when contract renewal time comes. When surgeons, internists and anesthesiologists have different approaches to the perioperative care of a patient, statesmanship must diffuse the situation, remembering that patient safety is fundamental. It is crucial to have a record of providing excellent care to reinforce the fact that everyone is working for the patient's benefit and everyone benefits when the patient does well.