医学百科 The Medicine Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
By the mid-20th century, the increasing sophistication of surgery required skilful anaesthetists, and anaesthesiology became a specialist area of medicine.
医学百科 The Medicine Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
The anaesthetist's task is to select the appropriate anaesthetic agents, to carefully monitor the patient, and to ensure throughout the surgery that the patient remains oblivious to pain.
I've also been recommended in the past from those of the redhead clan to inform anaesthetists that you do have the ginger gene and may need a higher level of anaesthetic.