The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate the business side of anesthesia. Examples of topics include: the evolution of anesthesia as a business, changes in reimbursement, economics of various practice models, the expansion of anesthesia providers into various aspects of medicine (pain, aesthetics, IV therapy), legalities and malpractice, etc. The possibilities of topics are widespread and purely hindered only by creativity. The student is required to write a scholarly minimum of 5 pages paper (excluding title and reference page) in AMA format in Times New Roman 12 point font