2026 International Book Awards Finalist in Self-Help: GeneralHe wore a mask of certainty for decades—until it nearly cost him everything.Author Benjamin Plumb’s life reads like an introvert’s worst nightmare: terror during US Army field training, fear during enemy night attacks in Vietnam, forced extroversion at the Harvard Business School, chaos during economic collapse in Chile, and shock from an extortion attempt by Manu...

He wore a mask of certainty for decades—until it nearly cost him everything. Author Benjamin Plumb’s life reads like an introvert’s worst nightmare: terror during US Army field training, fear during enemy night attacks in Vietnam, forced extroversion at the Harvard Business School, chaos during economic collapse in Chile, and shock from an extortion attempt by Manuel Noriega in Panama. In The Satisfied Introvert—part gripping memoir, part practical self-help book—Plumb tells the story of h...

This is the first dedicated revision aid for the Single Best Answer component of the Final FFICM, added to the written examination in July 2014. It contains 240 SBA practice questions, divided into eight papers covering the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine curriculum. Each answer consists of a short explanation, allowing a quick review of the correct answer, and a long explanation, providing a more in-depth discussion of the question topic. All answers are also fully referenced, encourag...