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operating room to devote their attention to work in the recovery
room, intensive care unit or as- a person who responds to cardiac
arrests or functions as consultant for pulmonary management. The
best use of anesthesiologists would be to have them be involved in
d¿cision-making skills that ¿ae needed from a physician and
delegate the more technical skills to people with lesser training
[i].
Time-sharing of anesthesiologists: the Solution
The use of physician extenders is a rationale reflecting a
national trend to making tho time of physicians available to more
patients by extending their ability to see patients.
Telecommunications technology in medicine or Telemedicine has been
proposed as a solution to problems in medical care during the
1960s [10,11]. Health care professionals in this mode _f iractice
use the telecommunication channels to communicate with each other
or with patients in order to improve the cost-effectiveness and/or
cost benefit of the delivery of health care services. Systems
analysis studies have shown that using either or both the new
communication technologies and different ways to organize the
practice of medicine can result in improving both the quality and
These studies were funded by grants from the U. S. Public
Health Service and from the National Institute of Health.