ICU:Mortal Combat with the Angel of Death
As the icu doc describes it himself this blog gives its reader updates from the front lines of medical care. Reports of one doctor’s daily struggle in an Intensive Care Unit, as he fights the Angel of Death over the fate of the sickest patients in the hospital.
It may be because so far intensivist (icu doctor) is very, very high on my list of what i want to do with my medical degree. It may be because it’s medical. But there is no doubt that his posts keep my attention. I like his style of writing, how he uses the angel of death (metaphor or not) to reflect the struggle of his “job” in an interesting and philosophical way.
The angel will always win, not every battle, but in the end. As a icu dotor , day in day out, he is being confronted with the delicacy of live. No matter what, in the end there is nothing but the angel of death.