Just visited the acute physicians web site
I suspect this is a fairly low career priority for most budding young
physicians searching for a real "ology"
I would suggest they are pissing in the wind to put it bluntly, and in the
end it will be the specialty of Emergency Medicine, in all its aspects,
which inevitably takes control of processing the "emergency patients"
The fact that "primary care" is given emphasis in their conference program
is quite a pointer.
Perhaps it is really the patients fault that they are acutely unwell and
fronting up to the hospital. A few tablets from the GP could sort thousand
of these patients out and reduce the load on the keen young acute
physicians!!
Pardon my use of the word "pissing" but it was a passing conversation with
the President of ACEP some 7 years ago (whilst we were both doing exactly
that in the Guildhall in London) which confirmed my suspicions that the
Emergency Physicians in the USA had gone through the debate on expansion
years ago and just got on with it.
Regards
JohnC
Dunedin NZ (4 consultants in post and adding one more per year till we reach
11)
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From: john ryan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2001 12:20
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Consultants for ATLS at night
Somebody's got to start the ball rolling and it sure as hell ain't
> going to be the physicians!
>
> Adrian Fogarty
>
Dont bet on it Adrian. Presumably you are aware of the Society for Acute
Medicine. Check their website at;
www.acutemedicine,org.uk
If we dont define our territory others such as these chaps will do it for
us.
Dr John Ryan
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