Hello and welcome back to Ackrak. I'm Jed Walpaw and I am thrilled to have a fabulous show today.

I have with me the one and only anesthesia

God. Now, I probably do not even need to introduce this person, but I will say anyway that this

is one of the most influential anesthesia-focused Instagram pages on the entire platform.

Anesthesia God has over 16 million views every month, 16 million, and roughly 270,000 followers.

That puts the account in the top 1 to 2% of Instagram creators by reach efficiency and among the top half percent of medical creators by views.

And just to put that in perspective, most successful professional or anesthesia focused accounts have somewhere in like the 5 to 40,000

follower range, while anesthesia God, as I said, has 270,000 and consistently delivers

nearly 60 times that number in monthly reach, which means people are sharing these things so

widely because they love it. And it really says a lot, I think, about the quality of the

account and how far reaching it is. Anesthesia God is a CRNA and assistant professor, but we cannot disclose his

name or university affiliation. He practices full-time clinically and has been in practice for more than 10

years, including academic teaching. He specializes in neuro and pediatric anesthesia, and of course

runs the Anesthesia God Instagram account. Anesthesia God, welcome to the show. Hey man, what's happening? Thank you for having me. Absolutely thrilled to have you here. Thank you for the incredible work you do. And I want to talk about, let's talk about you a little bit first. So tell me a little bit about you. We know you're a CRNA, And as I mentioned, you've been practicing for about 10 years. Have you been doing pediatric and neuro anesthesia that whole time, or has your practice evolved over time? Yeah, I mean, I started out doing pediatric anesthesia. I really loved pediatric anesthesia. I thought it was, you know, it's a little more challenging. It was different. And it was, you know, always those like moments of terror where you're like freaking out. And then, you know, these kids bounce back so quickly that it's like, okay, wow, he's fine. He was just blue. And now he's in Pacu drinking apple juice. Like, we're good. So I love that aspect of it. I do a lot of adults as well, but I think primarily now I'm doing more adults.

I do do some neuro.

I do teach pediatrics and teach neuro, though.

That's why it was sort of my focus.

So I kind of like do a little bit of everything.

That's awesome.

Yeah, I loved pediatric anesthesia as a resident, but I think for me, I had kids at the same time. And so I, like, would be taking care of these babies while I had my own babies at home. And it was tough. So I, in the end, I decided to go other ways. But I have a ton of respect for people who do that every day. Yeah. I've, you know, that's the one thing is, you know, kind of keeping it together in the operating room because I feel like the entire staff is watching you when things are going bad with the kid. And depending on your reaction is how people are going to react, right? So if I'm flipping out, they're going to flip out. But plenty of times I dropped them off and pack you and went to the locker room and got into the fetal position and cried for sure.

I bet. Yeah. Well, again, thanks for the work you're doing. So you have also, of course, this outside or other job. And I'm sure it is a job. You do an incredible amount of work with anesthesia God. I mean, you're posting multiple things every day. When did you first start this account?

I started at like the end of 2021. Okay. And yeah, that's the start of it. That was the start.

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