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The DO Book Club, Aug. 2022: Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

By The DO Staff

08.21.22

When Wes Ely, MD, started as a resident headed for a career in critical care medicine, he encountered one of his first intensive care unit (ICU) patients who survived her near-death experience, but was never the same person again. She could barely move, and her cognitive abilities were greatly diminished.