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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 12/2018

01-12-2018 | From the Inside

Gulliver’s travels in the intensive care unit

Authors: Andrea Cortegiani, Filippo Vitale

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2018

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Excerpt

“…from what I had heard and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated. I grew heartily ashamed of the pleasing visions I had formed; and thought no tyrant could invent a death into which I would not run with pleasure, from such a life.”
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Title
Gulliver’s travels in the intensive care unit
Authors
Andrea Cortegiani
Filippo Vitale
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2018
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5179-8

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