Everything in life has a question, every question in life has an answer, and every answer in life has a reason. My question is: why be an anesthesiologist? Well, why be something, why be a parent, why be young, why the world is becoming more and more violent. Because we want to be, we have to be, and that's exactly where the world is taking us. I want to help people and I want to make a difference in how they feel. I could easily be a psychologist but it takes someone to know that and I don't want to do that. Being a doctor I have the opportunity to help people of all ages and will not compromise my physical and mental health. Going into surgery groggy from anesthesia is like getting on a plane, because you're temporarily putting what you hope are trained professionals out of your life. Anesthesia has revolutionized the way we look at surgery. Over the past 40 years, hundreds of new, better, and safer anesthetics have been introduced. Just think about what it would be like to be one of the doctors bringing one of these new advances to the world. How many millions of people would you help? Science is growing rapidly in the medical field every day - it's a new discovery of a drug or a procedure that works better than the old one, so it's necessary to be part of the advancing age would be more rewarding than many other things I can do to think. It is estimated that approximately 15 million people undergo anesthesia each year with only the rarest of complications. The most interesting thing about this miracle is that there is not a person on the face of this earth who can tell you what it is in the drugs we use that makes them do what they do. We don't even know how they work, nor do we understand how they work. Yes, this is a very scary thing, but just think of the rewards and benefits you could have if you could provide the answer to all those questions. The fact is that we know no more about anesthetics now than we did 150 years ago when we first started using them. Like many revolutions in medicine, anesthesia was discovered by accident in the early 1900.