AA lost battle to perform regionals in Ohio

this is great now the ASA is seeing that AAs want independence as well.
"Be careful what you wish for you just may get it".

Nope. Never asked to be independent of anesthesiologists - you must have us confused with some other group of non-physicians.

Perhaps you have *us* confused with some other group, jrk. We are nurses here, CRNAs, SNRAs, and wannabees. Nurses. Check the heading on this ALLNURSES BB. Nurse anesthetists have been caring for the anesthetic needs of America's patients for some one hundred twenty years, which is roughly fifty years before the A$A was formed, and long before the doctors conceived of a handmaiden they lovingly named AA. ASSistant.

Independent of featherbedding physicians, as always,

deepz