
TIRBO #12: On heroics (or: is critical care hard?)
Critical Care Scenarios
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The trope that you'll hear not infrequently, both in an outside of medicine, that the job we do in critical care is especially hard. And it probably applies to other specialties, and when youare comparing medicine to other professions entirely. In a way, this job is quite hard, or at least it can be. I takes a lot of training. It can be very stressful. This all kind of comes from the same place and has the same implication, which is to say that we're doing something that is special. Is that true? Well, of course, in a way, it's true.
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