The Long Journey Home Mortality as a Trial Endpoint Critical Care Reviews Blog 10    |    August 26th, 2026  |   Rob Mac Sweeney twitter vimeo instagram social This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The Long Journey Home Mortality, clinical trials and the race to the South Pole The Black Flag The first sign of failure was a dark speck on a white horizon. At first, it could have been anything. Then it resolved into a flag. It was black. On 16 January 1912, Robert Falcon Scott and his...

Why Physiology Is Never Enough: The Siren Song of Critical Care The MARCH Trial Critical Care Reviews Blog 8    |    July 12th, 2026  |   Rob Mac Sweeney twitter vimeo instagram social This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The Music Before the Rocks The Sirens did not lure sailors because they sang badly. They were dangerous because they sang beautifully. In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus knows that the Sirens’ song will be irresistible. He does not pretend he is immune...

The Nothing-to-Lose Fallacy The COCA Trial Critical Care Reviews Blog 9    |    July 25th, 2026  |   Rob Mac Sweeney twitter vimeo instagram social This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The Machine To Build the Station Chris Hadfield was travelling at eight kilometres a second, 400 kilometres above the Earth. Beneath him, the planet raced silently past. Beside him waited fifteen years of engineering that would determine the future construction of the International Space Station. In...

The Last Drop The REMAP CAP Ivermectin for COVID-19 Trial The Science of Stopping Critical Care Reviews Blog 7    |    May 13th, 2026  |  Rob Mac Sweeney twitter vimeo instagram social This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Figure 1: Junius Brutus Stearns, Washington on his Deathbed, 1851. Oil on canvas  | Wikimedia. On the morning of December 14th, 1799, George Washington was not abandoned by medicine. He was surrounded by it. His physicians bled him repeatedly,...