The Doctor Who Had to Innovate or Else
An anesthesiologist’s exemplary performance during a bygone epidemic is an inspiration for ours.
As the United States braces for the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, not knowing exactly when it will come, how severe it will be, or how short hospitals will be on intensive-care-unit beds and ventilators, the story of the Danish physician Bjørn Ibsen and his many helpers could not be more timely. Patients in dire condition survived because he innovated during an emergency, because agile hospital administrators recognized the value of an insight
