Dr. Gary-Anthony Lawson-Boucher
Anesthesiology
Fort Myers, FL
24 years experience male
Locations
Moonlight Anesthesia
Fort Myers, FL
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Insurances accepted
Aetna
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America
BCS Insurance Company
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Fort Myers, FL
About
Bio
I practice Anesthesia, with a sub-specialty in Ambulatory and Regional Anesthesiology. My goal is to allow you to have painLESS surgery.
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Anesthesiology
Languages spoken
Japanese
Doctor Q&A
173 Answers
13 Agrees
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A 48-year-old member asked:
Dr. Gary-Anthony Lawson-Boucheranswered
Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Meds: This medication is not an opiate. It is an anti-spasmodic of skeletal musvles.
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Laudinium: No. It is no longer used in midern medicine, because of the unpredictability of its effects/side effects.
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Obesity: Anaesthesia doesn't cause the complication. It is the physiology of obesity that leads to complications. In the hands of a trained anaesthesiologist, ... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Iidocaine: The question is confusing. Lignocaine is a tradename drug in the uk/commonwealth. If you were allergic to this drug, there are other local an esthetic... Read More
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A 39-year-old female asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Medicine names: ephedrine (ephedrine sulfate) is not the same as epinephrine. Ephedrine (ephedrine sulfate) is a standard medicine used in anesthesia to raise blood p... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Addiction: Yes. A patient can become addicted to the agents used for gen anesthesia. In south korea there are patients who are documented addicts to propofol. Th... Read More
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A 37-year-old female asked:
Dr. Gary-Anthony Lawson-Boucheranswered
Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Pain: Your past labour epidural has nothing to do with your menstrual cramps.
Your epidural was one-sided because the catheter was place beyond the midline... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Pain management: Nsaid vs narcotic. 1 alleviates somatic pain and inflammation, whilst the other masks the perception of pain.
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
ENT: Yes you should have intravenous access. No, you don't require intubation.
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A 17-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Wound: Wash liberally. The body will wall off any splinter. If no pain or tenderness in 2 days, then limited chance of infection.
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A 35-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Adjunct medicine: yes, you may use Ibuprophen and Acetaminophen with Local Anesthetics
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A male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Being : Being concerned about the risk of anesthesia is understandable.
Local vs general anesthesia bring similar risks, because of the nature of your surgery... Read More
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A female asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Your : Your statement shows the dilemma of many a student. Grades, life goals etc.
The study of medicine doesn't require you to be the smartest student, nor ... Read More
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A 35-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Infection: Yes, you may excise the cyst under general anesthesia. Local snesthetic may not be effective because of the change in chemistry caused by the infectio... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
Dr. Gary-Anthony Lawson-Boucheranswered
Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Analgesia: Yes, you will be okay. Many formulations combine opiates and nsaids.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Addiction: Be truthful about your nature. Do you have an addictive personality ? If so, add adjuvant non- opioid analgesics to your remedy. Also, tell your pharm... Read More
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
ARB: Losartan is an angiotensin receptor blocker. No, it won't lower your cortisol nor ne.
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A 56-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Antidepressants: There is no 1 answer to your question. Each person will react differently to each ssri. Trial and error.
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Don't: Don't see this change as the end of life. Celebrate this as another stage.
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Ignore: Attend a yoga session. There you will first learn to free your mind.
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Ignore: Don't take fish oil unless you have cardiac risk factors.
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Patients: Patients initially over estimate their strength or ability. Keep this in mind to reduce injuries.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Mismanagement: Your doctor must be a quack or not a trained physician. Opiates will constipated you. Thus causing weight gain.
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Ambulatory surgery: The hospital isn't your only option. Office based or ambulatory surgery centre options are normally 25% of the hospital cost. Google local asc. See wh... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
Dr. Gary-Anthony Lawson-Boucheranswered
Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Anesthesia: The survivability of any patient at any age is predicated on the procedure and the patient's physiology. Not on general anesthesia alone.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Anaesthesia: It makes you forget. It may also make you nauseated.
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Sex: More foreplay will enhance lubrication and lengthen the fornix. And not all sex needs to involve penile- vaginal penetration. Foreplay, foreplay forep... Read More
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A female asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
X-ray: No, you don't need to expose your body to unnecessary radio graphic studies.
Many people's coccyx is easily palpable
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Smoking: If you have been a smoker, continue your smoking. Stopping smoking less than 8 weeks before Surgery hasn't been shown to be of benefit. But, anytime o... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Lidocaine: Lidocaine will last 45'. It lasts up to 90' if Epinephrine is added.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Anesthesia: We keep you alive by protecting your airway and respirations; by keeping your heart beat and blood pressure within acceptable levels. All these we do ... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Ignore: Intercourse during the 3rd trimester will increase endorphins. Decreasing the need for analgesics.
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Pruritus: Pruritus is a possible side effect of opiates. This is because the opiate attaches to an isoform opioid receptor. This activated receptor causes itchi... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Pain meds: No.
Homatropine is a cycloplegic.
Promethazine is a phenothiazine.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Meds: No. Both have hydrocodone. But the 2nd agent is different.
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Pain meds: Depending on the nature of your pain. Not all pain is equal. So, not all pain requires opiates.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
High: The amount of opiate required to cause euphoria or other side effects is dependent in each person's physiology.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Norco (hydrocodone and acetaminophen): Norco (hydrocodone and acetaminophen) is hydrocodone/acetaminophen.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Fentanyl: 25 micrograms/hr is the lowest clinically relevant dose. 12.5 microgram is the lowest available.
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Obturans: Keratosis obturans is build up of keratin in the ear canal, leading to spin and hearing loss. Clean the ear canal and topical medicine is the tx.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Lumbar nerve: A lumbar nerve block is 1 way to treat pain caused by compression of a lumbar nerve root. It can be done " blind" or via fluoroscopy or us guidance. L... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Surgery: Have a caregiver to drive you home. No driving until the next day. No solid food 6 hrs before sedation.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Delirium: Emergence delirium is a common occurrence. It manifests as fighting; crying; abnormal behavior. Low oxygen ; pain; patient's nature are possible etiol... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Med micing: Opiates plus marijuana. There is as much side effects as taking hydrocodone with aspirin, ibuprofen, or acetaminophen. Each person's physiology determ... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Fertility: Yes, tubal ligation can be reversed. In light of your thin uterine lining, you risk uterine rupture with subsequent pregnancy.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Medication: The green speckles that you observe in your medication is manufacturer dependent. Similar chemical structures come in different packages.
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Half life: Depends of you used it acutely or chronically. The half-life is 4, 8 hrs. So expect it to last 25 hrs from the last use.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Tolerance: Hard to undo your physiology. Stop taking hydrocodone or other opiates. Use other meds that don't activate your liver.
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A 50-year-old member asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Lidocaine: 5% gel/cream which is 50 mg of lidocaine.
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A 27-year-old male asked:
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Anesthesiology 24 years experience
Scar tissue: The steroid-xylocaine (lidocaine) combination will not cause trouble. The xylocaine (lidocaine) acts as a numbing agent the steroid decreases inflamma... Read More
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Apr 10, 2015
Great doctor. Consistently gives thoughtful, insightful and expert advice.
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Lawson-Boucher is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Lawson-Boucher is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New Jersey Medical School
Graduated 1999MD
Residency
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey University Hospital
Residency
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Awards
Valor, United States Navy
HealthTap Top Doctor, Winter 2013
HealthTap TopDoc Summer 2013
Affiliations
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Florida Society of Anesthesiologists
United States Naval Hospital, Yokosuka Japan
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