It is the middle of winter, your department is full of patients waiting to get into hospital. The Christmas and New Year holidays have stretched your department to breaking point. That is the bad news. The good news is the arrival of your first copy of Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ). The first edition tries to span the variety of emergency medicine and hopefully everyone should find something of interest, and there is more to come.

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