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Thoughts on intensive care: from morphine to Merlyn and Tolstoy to television

Author: Cory Franklin

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 5/2003

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The heritage of intensive care medicine is passing from the first generation of intensivists, who began practicing in the 1960s and 1970s, to the next generation of practitioners. Passing this torch involves instruction not simply about medical facts and technical know-how, but about judgment, conduct, and interactions with patients, ICU staff, and other physicians as well as with society as a whole. Such instruction is essential to any sense of professional continuity. …

Title: Thoughts on intensive care: from morphine to Merlyn and Tolstoy to television
Author: Cory Franklin
Publication date: 01-05-2003
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 5/2003
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-003-1706-2

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