physician role anesthesiologist role http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/omrse.owl A physician with responsibility for managing complex airways, and administering anesthesia or making decisions about anethesthic medications to be administered in collaboration with the attending physician. A physician role that, if it is realized, is realized either by administering medication for the temporary general or local suppression of sensory or motor nerve function during some health care encounter or providing airway management or by making decisions independently of a supervising physician regarding the adminstration of such medication. Jonathan Bona Mathias Brochhausen