TY - JOUR T1 - Finding primary care in the surgical ICU JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 337 LP - 337 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X719969 VL - 72 IS - 720 AU - Aldis H Petriceks Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/720/337.abstract N2 - It was the start of my surgical clerkship, in my second year of medical school, in the middle of a 1-week stint on an elective rotation. I was sitting in the operating room, watching a screen projection of a robotic procedure. A loud beep went off and one of the surgeons, a resident,* pulled out her pager and looked intently downward. She, who had been watching the attending physician perform an especially difficult portion of the procedure, whispered something and stood up to leave. I followed.She maintained a striking intensity down the hall, up the stairs, around a few turns. We paced into the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) where, two rooms down, there had gathered a crowd of clinicians. We moved straight to the front, where the resident pulled a colleague aside and began asking questions. The patient was having a … ER -