gas passer
Medical slang for an anesthesiologist — the doctor whose job is to keep you unconscious and pain-free during surgery by administering anesthetic gases and drugs.
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Medical slang for an anesthesiologist — the doctor whose job is to keep you unconscious and pain-free during surgery by administering anesthetic gases and drugs. The term is used affectionately and irreverently within hospitals, especially by surgeons who have a running friendly rivalry with anesthesiology departments. It captures the anesthesiologist's role in a funny, reductive way that strips the specialty's genuine complexity down to its most visible function: passing the gas that puts you under.
Tell the gas passer we're ready in OR 3 — patient's prepped and the surgeon is scrubbing in.
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(medicine, slang) An anesthesiologist.
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