For 31 months, I languished on Rikers Island, waiting for my day in court. Many people have heard of Rikers Island and its cruel dysfunction. And some know that roughly 90% of the people confined there are Black like me or Latinx. Fewer people know that Rikers bears the name of Richard Riker, who enslaved Black people, boasted that he could “arrest and send any Black to the South,” and used his power as a judge to classify Black people as “fugitive slaves.”
Rebecca Bratspies decided to dig into the lives behind the names of roads, bridges, and institutions in her book, “The Villains, Rogues & Heroes Behind New York’s Place Names."
The lack of consensus or accepted definition for light sedation presents challenges to critical care practitioners seeking to follow guidelines related to pain, agitation and delirium.