>Do any other
>specialists allow a first month SHO
>to practice every aspect of their work
>unsupervised? Surgery? Anaesthesia?
>Interventional Cardiology? Do we really
>deserve any credibility yet? If the
>government does do away with our
>specialty then we should shoulder
>some of the blame: by not providing
>specialist emergency medicine care at
>evenings and weekends we add
>ammunition to the argument that we're
>not really needed the rest of the time
>either.
Hmm. This sounds ominous to me. We cannot get funding for more doctors and yet we must have more (and many more) doctors to function properly.
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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