title: Group battles its way to anesthesiology department.
abstract: This is a story of the evolution of anesthesiology services in a small Mid-America town in which there is a developing multispecialty group. The location and author are not identified, because to do so would almost certainly intensify the hostility that still remains some years after the effort by the group to establish an anesthesiology department was successfully completed. The account is offered in the hope that other groups may recognize their situations and reach similar solution, or be encouraged to attempt such an approach to anesthesiology services.
mesh_terms: D000761:Anesthesia Department, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D003363:Cost Control; D004526:Efficiency; D006123:Group Practice; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States