A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948-2004 /

Accident and emergency departments are the doorway to the hospital for acutely ill and injured patients. Whereas casualty departments have existed for over 150 years, they were often poorly staffed and managed. This book describes the fight to create a new medical specialty of accident and emergency...

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Main Author:	Guly, Henry (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:	History. Emergency Medicine. History of Medicine. History of Science. World History, Global and Transnational History. Emergency medicine. Medicine > History. World history. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	Accident and emergency departments are the doorway to the hospital for acutely ill and injured patients. Whereas casualty departments have existed for over 150 years, they were often poorly staffed and managed. This book describes the fight to create a new medical specialty of accident and emergency medicine against much opposition from established specialties. The specialty was first recognised in 1972. The book also charts the major developments that occurred in the first 30 years of the specialty.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (XVIII, 183 pages)
ISBN:	9780230000742
DOI:	10.1057/9780230000742