A physician anesthesiologist reports in from Afghanistan

 A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com.
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com.
As a physician, you never quite get used to being paged in the middle of the night. The shrill tones emitted via a radio frequency device that seems squarely stuck in the 1980s are almost always …
 
      







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