The "Michael Jackson Special"

From our List Making Department.

We have not given any credit to the humble list for several weeks, so the byline "From our List Making Department" is another one stone, two birdies strike, reminding you that civilization started with a list, while crediting our list making department for a post they had no hand in.

Even the bible starts with God's ToDo list for the upcoming week, so show some gratitude, or at least fake it convincingly.

The list today is: list your favorite medical specialties.

While everybody who patches up people and other animals deserves praise and recognition, independent from their title and training, TheEditor realized the other day that anesthesiologists are its favorite (TheEditor is brazenly gender neutral).

This was an odd thought.

Why anesthesiologists, of all the specialty fields?

Ophthalmologists have played a hugely important role in TheEditor's life up to and including those colored contact lenses that are even more fun when you use a different color in each eye. Plus, "eye doctor" is a lot easier to spell than anesthesiologist. What about the internal medicine doctor who keeps shit going, the dermatologist who helps the thin skinned and the thick skinned alike without prejudice, or the urologist who prevents you from turning into one giant waste water balloon if the plumbing gets blocked?

Don't believe everything you think!

This joyful reminder of man's foibles by the TV psychiatrist was not sufficient to make the psychs land the top spot. The surgeons are forever labeled as slicers and butchers in the little brain of TheEditor.

Again, why anesthesiologists?

Is it because the anesthesiologist broke into a laugh when, in the middle of a consultation on Propofol, a friend of the K-Landnews blurted out "oh, a Michael Jackson Special"? Though easy to construct into the reason for the fondness of anesthesiologists, this is not it.

It is much more intangible than that, you cannot put a finger on it, poke it with a scalpel, or hear it with a stethoscope. 

Anesthesiologist have, without exception, been extraordinarily good listeners, that's the one observation TheEditor can safely state. 

There likely is more to it, possibly something with the whole dream and death mythology but calling them great listeners will do for now.