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Even King Canute was a realist ! Rob ---------- From: acad-ae-med-request To: acadae messages Subject: Re: Accident is a moron Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 11:01AM probably very little. Since the topic was raised on the list I have been a little more sensitive to what people call us. Nearly all circulars round the department regarding A+E refer to the department as casualty and the docs as casualty officers. Taxi drivers have no idea where A+E is, but can take you straight to casualty and even some of the research proformas we have state that that they should be filled in by the junior casualty doctor. Seems it will be very difficult to change either the professions or the public's name for us. (is there an analogy between departments of primary health care and GP's??). Simon Carley SpR in Emergency Medicine Hope Hospital Salford England [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Dr Matthew W Cooke <[log in to unmask]> To: acadae messages <[log in to unmask]> Date: 05 February 1999 13:58 Subject: Re: Accident is a moron > >Even BMJ journalists can't mange to call us A&E > >see today's BMJ: > http://www.bmj.com/cgi/collection/accident_emergency >Waiting times in British casualty departments remain too long > Zosia Kmietowicz > BMJ 1999;318 351 >which also refersto A&E WARDS > >What hope in changing the public > >Matthew > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%