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Podcast: Beyond The Mask: Innovation & Opportunities For CRNAs
Episode: The McMechans & the Origins of the CRNA–Physician Conflict
Description: From the very beginning of nurse anesthesia, opposition was organized, strategic, and relentless. Two central figures who devoted their careers to making anesthesia a physician-only specialty in the United States in the early 1900s were Frank and Laurette McMechan. Today, we’ll examine their lives and professional impact in this historical episode with our show historians Nancy Bruton-Maree, CRNA and Sandy Ouellette, CRNA.
Here’s some of what you’ll hear in this episode:
🔥 Who Frank and Laurette McMechan were and why they mattered
📜 Early efforts to eliminate nurse anesthesia in the U.S.
🏛️ How p...