KevinMD January 25, 2026
To those who would speak too quickly, to those shaping narratives without knowing the weight of the work, and to those of us still standing, I write this as a physician, as a colleague in medicine, and as someone who understands, intimately, what it means to stand at the threshold between life and death. Not as an idea, not as rhetoric, but as responsibility.
I am not a nurse. I am a doctor writing this. I did not know Alex Pretti, personally, but still, I know him all too well.
I know him through the indispensable presence of ICU nurses whose clinical judgment, vigilance, and skill make modern medicine possible. I know him in the quiet choreography of resuscitations, where...
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