Life in the BalanceA moving, frank and unflinching yet witty account of the realities of intensive care medicine from Dr Jim Down, ICU consultant at one of London's top hospitals In these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit the hospital section where the sickest patients are brought for emergency care. With honesty, humility and a streak of dark humour, Dr Down describes the quietly heroic work of doctors and nurses on the ICU, a