The myth of critical care

When asked during a recent ICU rotation if I was considering critical care as a subspecialty, I offended more than one person with my response: “No, I really don’t enjoy torturing old people.”  Granted, that unfiltered comment came at the end of a long and sleepless 28-hour shift, but the sentiment holds true.

As doctors, we have a number of tools to assess quality of life in research.  We use fancy …

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