My First 50 Years of Critical Care (1956–2006)

After an unbelievably inspiring 18 years of coeditorship with Kathleen Dracup, first on Heart & Lung and then on the American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC), which we launched together in July 1992, I have retired, leaving the medical coeditorship in the capable hands of Dr Peter Morris—a more than worthy successor. As a farewell to the editorship of AJCC (now in its 16th year of publication!), I have been asked to write an overview from my personal perspective of critical care.