Resuscitation

During the early years in the creation of emergency medicine as its own specialty, questions continually arose about why emergency medicine should be a separate specialty. What is unique about emergency medicine that warrants its own standing as a specialty? After all, every other specialty involves emergencies, so why should there be a specialty focused just on emergencies? If a patient has a heart attack, the cardiologist can manage the emergency; if a patient has profuse hematemesis, the gastroenterologist can manage the emergency; if a patient is the victim of a gunshot wound to the abdomen, a surgeon can manage the emergency, and so on.
Source: Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Foreword Source Type: research