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This is not good news for the residents of Watertown, WI. Watertown Regional Medical Center(courtesy of the private equity-backed, contract medical group Envision) removed all of its anesthesiologists for a 100% CRNA model. In a nutshell, they replaced physicians with nurses. 
2)They then have the audacity to declare that the "literature is clear" that the quality of care and outcomes "are just as good"...compared to whom Anesthesiologists? Yeah...No. To state that the 100% CRNA is a "common model" smacks of them trying to reassure somebody this is a
3)good move. It isn't. No anesthesiologist will be available to patients for emergencies that CRNAs are not trained to manage? The surgeons will now be the "Captains of the Ship"--liable for any mishaps by the CRNAs, despite the fact that they don't know jack about anesthesia
