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Maxime Valois and John Christian Fox argue the role of POCUS in critical care. Maxime makes the case for POCUS being a problem. POCUS changes everything. It has helped physicians throughout the world to make easier, more accurate and faster diagnoses. It has contributed to enhance the diagnostic possibilities in resource-scarce environments However, as it gains more widespread acceptance, its use is becoming more and more common. Maxime contests that this poses a problem. No longer is ultrasound only in the domain of specialists and technology-eager early adopters of the technology. He proposes that this will lead to difficulties as non-specialists take up the technology. Maxime warns against being hypnotised against the seductive nature of ultrasound. Research and use of fancier, new or more advanced applications are likely to help the global advancement of POCUS and even medicine in general. But as POCUS enters fully in its stage of normal science, this will inevitably induce some degree of scientific esote