“The perfect storm of lazy MDs, an incompetent ASA and the dramatic taming of the traditionally wild surgical procedures and advances in anesthesia have set up the perfect stage for the aggressive takeover of the specialty by the nursing realm, where it all started in the first space. Today’s MD anesthesiologists have ceded control of the specialty and are rightly a footnote in history—not ‘misunderstood’ at all, as Dr. Sherer would have us believe.”