I mentioned pulmonary fibrosis in my last post. We had three big cases on our ICU in April, all three of them pretty difficult. Pulmo...

Somebody tried to tell me today that we aren't allowed to ride around dangling from the elbows on the cardiac walkers, making TIE fight...

People die on the ICU. This is just a fact of life: we can’t save everybody. Bodies fall apart if enough bad things happen to them. Som...

Hey guys, update is delayed until tomorrow-- we are emergently moving to a new apartment (ours is suffering the wrath of every backed-up sto...

I apologize for the brevity of this post. For those of you that follow my scrawlings on Something Awful, I’ve been doing an AMA for the las...

Post incoming tomorrow! Eventually I hope to be able to update every Saturday night, but right now my husband's schedule and mine are bo...

Every shift, we introduce ourselves to our pts, explain how long we’ll be there today, and talk about our goals for the day. Some people ha...