Are anaesthesiologists considered as surgeons in a way?

Question

I'm pretty sure that both professions are pretty closely related... but I'm not sure to what extent...
HELP!!!

Answer 1

They have to attend medical school and become doctors, then they go on to specialize in anaesthesics.

Answer 2

^^^do not read Belfus's response...that was extremely ignorant especially about the part that surgeons kill while anesthesiologists keep patient alive. *shaking my head* Don't try to put fluff in your answer (even though most of it was correct).

Briefly,

Surgeons operate on the patient. It's pretty much self explanatory for what they do. There's many kinds of surgeons, such as cardiac, pediatric, neuro, etc.

Anesthesiologists prepare the patient for surgery as well as monitor the patient after surgery (post-operative care). They do not do any surgical work. However, they induce anesthetics so patient will not feel anything in the surgery. They pretty much watch the patient suffer and recover from a surgery. It's an awesome job! but it requires a lot of time so does surgery.

Answer 3

In short surgeons do the cutting job and anaesthesiologists keep the patient
1) Unconcious
2) Pain free
3) relaxed (both mentally and physically)
and at the same time alive (this is specially important in context to the fact that both the drugs used and the surgeons activities have the potential to kill the patient )

Answer 4

the two jobs are entirely different. anesthesiologists allow surgeons to operate by rendering the surgical patient insensible to pain, either by numbing the operative site or by inducing general anesthesia (a state of unconsciousness). also an important part of the anesthesiologist's job is monitoring patients and keeping them alive while surgeons are trying to kill them by lacerating blood vessels and making them bleed to death. an anesthesiologist and surgeon both are doctors and have completed medical school. but their residency training programs are different. surgeons need at least 5 years of residency training, probably more depending on the subspecialty, before becoming an "attending" surgeon. an anesthesiologist needs 4 years of residency training before he can go out and practice his craft independently (meaning without supervision). geoffgilsey's answer above is actually pretty insulting when he stipulates that the surgeon knows the gas man's job and the anesthesiologist doesn't know anything about the surgery. on the contrary, i've seen plenty of surgeons who have no clue what anesthesiologists do... true story: a surgeon sent a patient down for surgery, and in the holding area, the anesthesiologist cancelled the surgery. the surgeon was furious and demanded to know why. the anesthesiologist replied that the patient was dead! stupid surgeon... was ready to operate on a dead person.

Answer 5

They are both DRs...Surgeons do the cutting, this guy makes sure the peeps are asleep and don't feel anything. Some of them also are the pain management guy after wards also.

Answer 6

In Absolutely No Way are they related. The gas man is only concerned about vital statistics in relation to the effect of the anesthetic being introduced. It makes no difference to him what the surgeon is doing. It DOES make a difference to him as to what the surgery is for, or the patients condition. The surgeon knows the gas mans job, but the gas man has no clue about the surgeon's. I had to do 12 years of school and 1 1/2 years of practice before I made a cut on a live patient. A gas man is up and in business in 4. They are given the title of Doctor - but nothing to do with surgery.

Answer 7

Anesthesiologists don't do surgery. They put people to sleep.

Answer 8

a-puts you out
s-cuts you up
they both work in OR..... may be thats why you are thinking close ly related :))))))