I am a pulmonary and critical care physician who had spent a decade of my life working in ICUs before I became an ICU patient myself in 2025. As a physician, husband, and father of four young children, I had been saving others. 10 weeks after I went home, I returned to the ICU as a doctor. As an ICU doctor, I frequently share bad news. I am still a critical care physician, a husband, and a father.