Two of my favourite moments actually include anaesthesiologists btw.
One happened at the very start of my studies.......a lecture was held by one of them. So he went on about procedures and all that.
And at one point asked everyone: so, now that we have done all the testing and such- we should take it to the max. What would the max be?
Silence.
"Well- the max would be to talk to the patient!".
The other story is a bit macabre- but in fact had a good end.....the patient did survive, I'll say that before telling it!!
A fellow student was in the OR when things went bad- there was massive abdomial bleeding involved and the patient was going downhill.
So the anaesthesiologist started resucitation- pumping away.
All of a sudden the surgeon yells at thim from the top of his lungs: "Stop that damn pumping. If you do that I can't stop the effing bleeding down here!!!"
Reply: "Well- if I stop pumping up here there won't be any bleeding you have to stop down there!!!!"