YOUR DOCTORS

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• In the surgeon's office
• In a free standing outpatient surgicenter
• In a hospital operating room where both inpatient and outpatient surgery is performed

• In a hospital operating room where both inpatient and outpatient surgery is performed

In outpatient clinics, your primary physician is an anesthesiologist. It is this person who will supervise your visit from entering the center to your release at the end of your operation and successful recovery.

The first ether anesthetic in the United States was given for ambulatory surgery. The patient, James M. Venable, had a small cystic tumor removed from the back of his neck by Dr. Crawford W. Long on the evening of March 30, 1842 after school was dismissed.