The Intensivist's Challenge

1. “Fire in the Belly”: Youth and Exuberance
David Crippen

2. The Productive Years: “The Diesel Effect”
Joseph Lex

3. The Aging Intensivist and Business Management
John W. Hoyt

4. The Aging Critical Care Physician: A 50-Year Progression of Events
Ake Grenvik

5. Transitions from the Academic Heap: New Directions Within the System
James V. Snyder

6. The Ageing Intensivist and Global Medical Politics
Richard Burrows

7. The Aging Intensivist and Academia
Thomas P. Bleck

8. The Critical Care Physician and a Career in Industry: Reflections and Recommendations
Donald B. Chalfin

9. Race and the ICU
Errington C. Thompson

10. The Aging Intensivist and Younger Colleagues
Ross Hofmeyr

11. Nearing the Clinical End: A Female Perspective
Marie R. Baldisseri

12. Good Times, Bad Times, Time to Get Out Alive: Ruminations of a Retiring Critical Care Physician
Mark A. Mazer

13. The Ageing Intensivist and Functional Incapacity
Brad Power

14. Legacy: What Ageing Intensivists Can Pass On
Stephen Streat

15. Future of Critical Care Medicine
W. Andrew Kofke, Guy Kositratna

16. Health Care in the Year 2050 and Beyond
Brian Wowk

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, Practice and Hospital Management