EDITORIAL
Adopt a disease
Adopt a disease; make this the year of stroke
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
G Hughes
The Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hosptial, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000, Australia; cchdhb@yahoo.com
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The specialty of Emergency Medicine has come a long way in 36 years. As our specialty has changed so have others. In the early years of the NHS, most hospital consultants were broadly "general". The general physician, surgeon, and pathologist were the backbone of senior doctors in district general hospitals. Sub and full specialisation gradually developed. A perusal of the contemporary list of specialties recognised by the General Medical Council and the Medicolegal Societies tells its own story.
As Emergency Medicine has prospered so its skill set and clinical territory has grown in tandem, although the growing pains have sometimes been painful. Skills traditionally owned by a specific group of doctors (or other healthcare professionals) are now shared or relinquished to varying degrees. Many of our founding fathers in Emergency Medicine had an interest in soft tissue injury, hand injury, and minor fractures. Nowadays we manage, independently
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