HONOLULU — Critical care, especially at the end of a patient’s life, requires practitioners to not only be vulnerable, but to accept and communicate uncertainty and to build trust with both the patients and their families.
Margaret Pisani, MD, MPH, FCCP, delivered the Roger C. Bone Memorial Lecture at the CHEST Annual Meeting and used her time to reminisce upon cases and mentors throughout her storied career that have helped her to become a better critical care physician.
“[Bone’s] research over the course of his career was focused on understanding shock and sepsis, and