From the moment he walked into an ICU, Carter sensed it was where he was meant to be. The ICU rewarded his handiness: he could intubate anyone. “There are two skills you have to have in an ICU,” he said. “You need to be able to put an IV into anybody, and you got to be able to stick a tracheal tube into anybody. You can’t do that, and you are going to lose a patient.”
