The Seattle Intensivist’s Blog
Dissipating The Myth of Shoe Covers
If you work in a hospital chances are you've put on shoes covers. This is a well intentioned practice largely predicated on a misunderstanding about the history of medicine. Originally, shoe covers were about preventing operating room fires not infections.
Is Critical Care becoming a Cargo Cult of Vitamin C?
Dozens of institutions have embraced the “metabolic cure” based upon evidence far flimsier than would be required for any “non-natural” medicine. Non-falsifiable theories ("this patient was saved by vitamin C”) are proffered as fact.
Whether the “metabolic cure” is truly a panacea or not remains to be rigorously tested. Whatever the outcome, the rituals practiced by the cargo cult of critical care must be questioned. Surely, if a plane did land on an Atoll, it was not brought there by magic.