Humility

The ICU teaches us humility. It outlines for us those vague wispy boundaries of medicine, the borders between proven and unproven, known and unknown. It is the edge over which we look, it is the territory which we define ourselves. It takes emotion and draws it out on a line, the end of which we cannot see and almost know. The ICU turns science on its head, creates art from misery, enraptures us in fear. But it is also a place where we tumble into the depths of courage, where we transform, where we find love again.