Sir George has been a senior politician (medical) for a long time. The
ability to seem fair is a prerequisite for survival at the higher levels of
public life. I do not know him and have never met him but I am suspicious
of his aims as far as A&E is concerned.
He has a body of support which is from the acute medical specialties. The
future of emergency medicine may take it from its surgical roots and off
into the centre ground of medicine. Some of us may welcome that. I would
miss the current broad speciality with aspects of all areas of clinical
endeavour. I also feel it would lose the very acute reson for its existence
ie the slowness of general medical intervention.
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