Physician anesthesiologist

[Zipporah Schumaker]

Long - and redundant - form of anesthesiologist, sometimes used to distinguish a physician whose specialty is anesthesiology from a nurse [anesthetist]. Nurse anesthetists have far less education and training and carry out delegated functions under the supervision of anesthesiologists. However, some have taken to calling themselves nurse anesthesiologists, a fictional term they invented to blur the distinction between doctors and nurses who administer anesthesia to patients undergoing medical and surgical procedures.
The term [nurse anesthesiologist] is regarded by those who are aware of the large difference in education and training as deceptive or even fraudulent, and [physician anesthesiologist] has arisen to counter the deception.
Alternatives to physician anesthesiologist include real anesthesiologist and the original anesthesiologist, which continues to mean the doctor who has completed a minimum of four years after medical school to train in this specialty.

[Merna]

A redundant term used by the [AANA] to denote an [anesthesiologist]. All anesthesiologists are physicians who went through 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of residency. Anesthesiologists went to school for 12 years and incurred [250k] - 350k of debt to attain the knowledge necessary to keep a patient sedated and painlessly survive the invasive trauma of surgery.