Administer anesthesia during surgery or other procedures.
Anesthesiologists are physicians who administer anesthesia before, during, or after surgery or other medical procedures. They may provide general anesthesia, which puts a patient to sleep, or local anesthesia, which numbs only a certain area of the body.
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