PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - David John Williams
TI  - Brief history of the specialty of emergency medicine
AID  - 10.1136/emermed-2017-207257
DP  - 2017 Dec 06
TA  - Emergency Medicine Journal
PG  - emermed-2017-207257
4099  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2017/12/06/emermed-2017-207257.short
4100  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2017/12/06/emermed-2017-207257.full
AB  - 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.