Addressing health equity is a top priority for many, if not all, health care systems. Anesthesiologists can have a powerful leadership role in addressing this complex issue. ASA's Be the Solution: Sell Your C-Suite on the Value and Leadership of Anesthesiologists program features guidance and resources on this critical issue that you can share with your health care executives (asamonitor.pub/3ybWw4A). This involves detailing your leadership throughout the perioperative process, including managing surgical patients with high comorbidities and developing pathways that improve care for all patients.
But have you considered the broader role you can have in the equity equation? Anesthesiologists can be instrumental by ensuring and valuing a diverse workforce, using interpreter services appropriately, tackling the inequitable provision of epidurals and pain medication, and addressing the much higher maternal mortality among Black women, for example. To resolve these issues and overcome these hurdles, anesthesiologists – and all health...
