But the problem wasn't finding a surgeon. It was finding an anesthesiologist, who from the story's own description, isn't extra specialised. Unless that person

But the problem wasn't finding a surgeon. It was finding an anesthesiologist, who from the story's own description, isn't extra specialised. Unless that person is on call, it sounds like someone screwed up the schedules by putting an anesthesiologist on a surgery that would take longer than they were still scheduled for.