Published in The Wall Street Journal on June 17th, 2016“A swimming pool in the ICU? You must be nuts.”The nurse’s voice was almost lost amid the whooshing ventilator and infusion pumps. Five days earlier, we had admitted Bennie, a Vietnam veteran, to the intensive care unit of our VA hospital in Nashville, Tenn. Frail and…
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