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Here’s the slides I used for a Grand Rounds Lecture about Hypoxia and Hypoxemia.

People often ask me what my favorite books are for learning critical care, so I decided to put together a list of my favorites.

A Brief History of Daylight Savings Time The Earth's axis of rotation and orbital axis are not precisely aligned.

Here’s a talk I presented at CHEST2023 about how to use social media productively to enhance medical education.

This is a Thought Leader Session I gave at SCCM2023.

Vasopressor refractory shock is a life threatening emergency with up to 60% mortality.

In just two years we’ve gone from a dearth of knowledge to a wealth of therapeutics for COVID.

This is a Grand Rounds Lecture that I gave at the University of Arizona on 1/14/2022.

I had the privilege of delivering Grand Rounds at Denver Health NJH on Friday December 17, 2021.

While most medical eponyms honor the physician who first (or most prolifically) described the disease, a minority are named for the location of description (e.g., Lyme disease, Warfarin, Nystatin)[1], the causative exposures (e.g., coal miner's lung, Legi…

This is a recording of a Grand Rounds lecture I gave at NJH Grand Rounds on 10/15/2021.

Over the last year, I’ve watched in horror as ivermectin went from a pet theory to a cultish fringe belief and a dangerous “vaccine alternative”.

(this article appeared in Medpage Today on 8/9/2021) When I was in residency, Dave Park, MD, an intensivist who I greatly admired, observed that “the trauma ICU is filled by man’s cruelty to man, and the medical ICU by man’s cruelty to himself.”

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In 1928, the residents of Cleveland, Ohio watched in wonder as a unique structure was erected along the shores of Lake Erie.

I’ve been more than a little skeptical about the so called metabolic cure for sepsis for a while, but I wanted to wait until the results of the studies were back before passing judgement.

(This post was also published at CriticalCareNow on 11/1/2020) In many ways de-escalating critical care is more challenging than initiating it.

(This article appeared on CriticalCareNow on 9/11/2020) The benefit of corticosteroids in the critically ill is a perennial subject of debate, and over the last two decades the pendulum has swung several times.

The recent hydroxychloroquine saga in COVID19 has been an eye-opening example of how enthusiasm for a therapy can get far ahead of the evidence base.

A physician palpates for tactile fremitus as part of a physical exam during World War I, Washington DC.