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Brief history of the specialty of emergency medicine
Abstract
This is a brief overview of the development of the specialty of Emergency Medicine from small beginnings fifty years ago. It describes how the specialty evolved simultaneously in the UK and the USA and later in Australasia and Europe.
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Competing interests None declared.
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