William C. Shoemaker

"The foremost duty of the ICU director is to keep all the patient's systems in an equal state of failure so that all his consultants will be equally unhappy!" (WCS 1971) When Will Shoemaker left us, I lost a personal friend and a colleague who had been my guide in the early 1970s, in the beginning of multidisciplinary critical care in the United States, my counselor as my careers developed and a loyal supporter when I needed advice and help. [...]even the highest positions in the SCCM have been held by critical care nurses and pharmacists.