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An extraordinary tale, told by the freshly-minted doctors rotating
through the Medical Intensive Care Unit of one of the world's
greatest hospitals, collected and placed into context by Cleveland
Clinic physician Mikkael Sekeres, M.D., frequent contributor to the
New York Times Well Blog and award-winning columnist for Oncology
Times, and Theodore Stern, M.D., the Chief of the Psychiatric
Consultation Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a
Harvard Medical School professor of Psychiatry. The entries
recorded in the seven-volume "Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
Journal" cover a twenty-year period, beginning in January, 1980,
and reflect the unguarded reflections of these interns and
residents as they are thrown into the chaos of the Massachusetts
General Hospital intensive care unit, the last resort of medical
care for much of New England, where only the sickest of the sickest
patients are referred. Join these young doctors as they struggle
with extremes of medical care, the outrageousness of humor in the
midst of such despair, their first encounters with death, and
ultimately take a step back to appreciate the miracle of survival
as the human spirit triumphs over medical calamity. It is
remarkable that, even as these interns and residents themselves
toil through 36-hour, sleepless shifts, they steal away for a few
minutes to write an entry in this diary, to place their experience
in a greater context. It is even more incredible that their words,
recorded at the peak of vulnerability, have survived.
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