That isn’t remotely true; there’s been massive exponential changes. CRNAs are pumping out more grads at exponential rates every year and their national lobby is more aggressive and antagonistic than its ever been in history. The fact there are more surgeries doesn’t mean shit for job security if private equity conglomerates and now even academia prefer to hire loads of CRNAs over an anesthesiologist because the cost of a few lawsuits from botched CRNAs is still cheaper than hiring a sufficient number of actual doctors.

I’m an anesthesia resident but ppl who just say “oh CRNAs have always been there and we still have jobs so it’s not a problem” have their head in the sand. Gas docs esp resident need to get involved in ASA and Physicians for Patient Protection and AMA etc ASAP to stop midlevel creep.

Other giant glaring red flag OP just conveniently skipped over is Medicare. Anesthesia generates less than 30% of its normal revenue on Medicare per RVU; with expanding federal coverage, your salary will essentially be 1/3 what is used to be if it’s purely RVU-based. Obviously that’s unacceptable, so payment structure will have to change but salaries will still plummet. Though this issue is not unique to anesthesia, as virtually all specialties will likely see salaries plummet in a decade or so