I recently cared for a wonderful young man in the ICU with Pseudomonas septicemia.

The patient crashed faster than you can ever imagine. It is an absolutely challenging and high-morbidity entity and the management is literally a race against time.

He was status post bilateral lung transplants due to cystic fibrosis and was neutropenic from immunsuppression.

Even though he had been sick all his life, he always run when he was intermittently healthy, was in a rodeo and had travelled the whole US. He was always up to something constructive.

As impressive as his disease entity was, his life was even more exemplary. He made more of an impression on me than an unforgiving bug.