The Intensivist's Challenge Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress
This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world. Most of these physicians started in critical care at or before the exponential increase in technological modalities to reverse or sustain organ functio
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The Intensivist’s Challenge
Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty
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The Intensivist's Challenge
David Crippen Editor
The Intensivist's Challenge Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty
Editor David Crippen Department of Critical Care Medicine University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-30452-6 ISBN 978-3-319-30454-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30454-0
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Foreword
I still read the odd journal that comes in the mail, and through the electronic waterfalls. In this week’s selection, there seemed to be a number of articles written by people, with whom I podiumed over the years, who were older than me. “Still charging the windmills” I thought. And there were some advertisements for industry functions spruiking some unfathomable device to measure blood flow starring some of the usual suspects. But many of the names who shared my journey are vanishing. The real pioneers have been slowly vanishing for some time. The baby boomers represent the second echelon. It was they who turned the inspiration of the Safars, Thompsons, Civettas, Shoemakers, Rapins, Grenviks, and Bursteins into a functional specialty. And now their time has come to go gently into the night. Intensive and Critical Care, like other specialties, have a number of unique features. Not least of these is that it has been an emerging specialty. It has been established for many years that the sickest patients are best looked after together in a special place, and in most countries, it is recognized that they are best cared for by specialist doctors and nurses. Successful intensive care seems to be dependent upon specialist presence at the bedside and the b
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