From doctor to patient: a critical care physician’s ICU journey
This is the fifth New Year since the onset of COVID-19 in America. I am a pulmonary and critical care physician who had spent a decade of my life working in ICUs before I became an ICU patient myself in 2025. As a physician, husband, and father of four young children, I had been saving others. But this year, I needed to be saved.
Transitions are times for introspection. How do …
From doctor to patient: a critical care physician’s ICU journey
