Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal

Intensive Care is an affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute—by—minute and day—by—day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner—city hospital, San Francisco General. John F. Murray, for many years Chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the hospital and a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, takes readers on his daily ward rounds, introducing them to the desperately ill patients he treats as well as to the young ...