The Intensivist's Challenge: Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty

ISBN-13: 9783319304526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 165 str.

David Crippen

Opis

This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world. Most of these physicians started in critical care at or before the exponential increase in technological modalities to reverse or sustain organ function, have seen patient care both ways, and have worked as many as 30 years or more at the bedside. The narratives are organized around such themes as: how and why these physicians entered the discipline of critical care; what was critical care like in the beginning; how they have experienced the flood of innovations in critical care; why they decided to retire (or not); and what their retirement options have been (or not).Composed by influential critical care medicine specialists, The Intensivist s Challenge: Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty is a valuable resource bringing together a discussion of the nature and problems of aging as they apply to physicians in a high-stress occupation, while assessing the value of clinical experience at the bedside in a world increasingly full of soulless technology.
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Spis treści

Chapter 1:  “Fire in the belly”: Youth and exuberance

David Crippen 

Chapter 2:  The productive years: "The diesel effect”

Joseph Lex 

Chapter 3:  The aging intensivist and business management 

John W. Hoyt 

Chapter 4:  The aging critical care physician: A 50 year progression of events

Ake Grenvik

Chapter 5:  Transitions from the academic heap: new directions within the system

James V. Snyder 

Chapter 6:  The aging Intensivist and global medical politics

Richard Burrows 

Chapter 7:  The aging Intensivist and academia

Thomas P. Bleck 

Chapter 8:  The critical care physician and a career in Industry: Reflections and Recommendations

Donald B. Chalfin

Chapter 9: Race and the ICU

Errington C. Thompson 

Chapter 10:  The aging Intensivist and younger colleagues

Ross Hofmeyr 

Chapter 11:  Nearing the clinical end: a female perspective

Marie R. Baldisseri 

Chapter 12:  Good Times, Bad Times, Time to Get out Alive: Ruminations of a Retiring Critical Care Physician  

Mark A. Mazer 

Chapter 13:  The aging intensivist and functional incapacity 

Brad Power 

Chapter 14:   Legacy: What aging intensivists can pass on 

Stephen Streat 

Chapter 15:  Future of Critical Care Medicine

W. Andy Kofke & Guy Kositratna 

Chapter 16:  Health Care in the year 2050 and Beyond

Brian Wowk 

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David Crippen, MD, FCCM

University of Pittsburgh

Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Neurological Surgery

Pittsburgh, PA

USA 

This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world. Most of these physicians started in critical care at or before the exponential increase in technological modalities to reverse or sustain organ function, have seen patient care both ways, and have worked as many as 30 years or more at the bedside. The narratives are organized around such themes as : how and why these physicians entered the discipline of critical care; what was critical care like in the beginning; how they have experienced the flood of innovations in critical care; why they decided to retire (or not); and what their retirement options have been (or not).

Composed by influential critical care medicine specialists, The Intensivist’s Challenge: Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty is a valuable resource bringing together a discussion of the nature and problems of aging as they apply to physicians in a high-stress occupation, while assessing the value of clinical experience at the bedside in a world increasingly full of soulless technology.

  

  

O autorze

David Crippen, MD, FCCM

University of Pittsburgh

Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Neurological Surgery

Pittsburgh, PA

USA