Worth reading: Less is more in intensive care

Catherine Auriemma et al. writing in Intensive Care Medicine: “The notion that ‘less is (or may be) more’ in intensive care medicine has been contemplated by experts for decades. However, not until Kox and Pickkers’ review in 2013 had there been careful consideration of the evidence supporting this theory.1 Their thought-provoking article focused specifically on…

Worth reading: The Case for Waking

Poetry and medicine, from Janis Lou Harrington in JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2757230 The Case for Waking “I. Beside my husband’s ICU bed, I plead my case for waking, hold my palm flat as a bible, place his warm hand on mine. His face inscrutable beneath a bandage wreath, he breathes on his own, his heart pumps, his…