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01-06-2018 | From the Inside

There’s more to medicine than machines

Authors: Elizabeth F. Maringer, Jay Shiland, Daniel Brodie

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2018

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After 24 h in the emergency room (ER), my first reaction when the doctor said they finally had an intensive care unit (ICU) bed was relief. I didn’t know enough (or wasn’t thinking clearly enough) to fully appreciate what that meant. We arrived at the ER on a Sunday night, with Jay battling what turned out to be “impressive” pneumonia in both lungs. I had walked by a group of ER doctors huddled around an X-ray that was all white. I didn’t realize until later that it was Jay’s. …

Title: There’s more to medicine than machines
Authors: Elizabeth F. Maringer
Jay Shiland
Daniel Brodie
Publication date: 01-06-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2018
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5125-9

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