I do know all that, but it still doesn’t really seem enough to qualify them as the most important person. Sure, they have the biggest power of veto, but without the surgeon, there is no surgery at all.
Remove the anæsthetist, and procedure forbids you from continuing. Remove the surgeon, and it’s impossible to continue. … Or remove the patient. I guess the patient is the most important person there after all! (Actually, that does a pretty good job of showing how the entire notion of “most important” may not make sense.)
this line of thinking is flawed - remove this tiny resistor from the motherboard and the computer will not boot -> this proves this tiny resistor is as important as the CPU.
> I do know all that, but it still doesn’t really seem enough to qualify them as the most important person.
A surgeon can perform a procedure on a living patient or a cadaver and whichever is the case, it does not affect their work. An anaesthesiologist is responsible for ensuring the former does not become the latter, excluding catastrophic surgical procedure failure.
> Remove the anæsthetist, and procedure forbids you from continuing. Remove the surgeon, and it’s impossible to continue.
Remove the anæsthetist, and procedure forbids you from continuing. Remove the surgeon, and it’s impossible to continue. … Or remove the patient. I guess the patient is the most important person there after all! (Actually, that does a pretty good job of showing how the entire notion of “most important” may not make sense.)