Hello and welcome back to Ackrack. I'm Jed Wolpaw and I am thrilled to have with

me today a fantastic guest and new to the show Dr. Yasmin Beg who is an assistant professor of

Aniseology at Northwestern and the Nora Medical Director for Northwestern

Memorial Hospital, Nora for those who may not, is non-O-R anesthesia.

And indeed, since Yasmin is an expert in this area, we are going to talk about non-O-R anesthesia

and how it differs from traditional O.R. Anesthesia.

So it's really a pleasure to have her on the show.

Yasmin, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's absolutely a pleasure. and I should say that this

episode is going to be featured on anesthesiology news.com great website with

all kinds of great content you should check it out and And also, I think I mentioned before that their podcast,

the Etherist, is actually pretty interesting

and the new episode, I mean, the new season that's out

covers the future of the kind of staffing and personnel crisis in

anesthesiology so it's pretty interesting and I would check it out. So why don't

I start by just asking you to share with the audience a little bit about how you developed an interest in this area specifically?

Was it during training? Was it after training? And how did that come about?

Sure.

So it's a little bit of an interesting path that I took.

So I'm actually Canadian,

and when I came to the U.S. for residency,

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