During a recent Academy of Anesthesiology meeting, John R. Moyers, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology Emeritus at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, delivered a riveting presentation about the operations and logistics involved in the 2018 rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team from the flooded Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Dr. Moyers’s primary source was a first-hand account, titled Against All Odds, written by Drs. Craig Challen and Richard Harris, with editorial assistance from the talented journalist and storyteller Ellis Henican. Although everyone in the audience was aware of the ultimately successful outcome of the perilous adventure, we all sat in silence, driven into our own stillness, which became total absorption. So captivating was Dr. Moyers’s lecture that I felt compelled to read the book to augment and sharpen the details of this astonishing story in my own mind.
Several decades ago, Supreme Court Justice Potter...
