bFor Readers of bbiWhen Breath Becomes Air iand iAttending Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity, ibban Intensive Care Doctor Reveals How Everyday Emotions Are Taken to Extremes in the ICU--with a New Afterword Relating to the COVID Pandemic.b pDr. Aoife Abbey takes us beyond the medical perspective to see the humanity at work inside our hospitals through the eyes of doctors and nurses as they witness and experience the full spectrum of human emotion with every shift. It is their responsibility to mitigate the grief of a family in mourning, calm a patient about to die, and confront their own fear of failure when lives are on the line. Whether they're providing hospice care, tending to victims of car accidents or violent attacks, determining the correct treatment for someone displaying signs of a heart-attack or stroke, and managing staff, stress is a doctor's number one companion. Cycling through the whirlwind of emotion that accompanies every case isn't only exhausting--it can be fatal.