TY - JOUR T1 - Brief history of the specialty of emergency medicine JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 139 LP - 141 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2017-207257 VL - 35 IS - 3 AU - David John Williams Y1 - 2018/03/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/139.abstract N2 - 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. ER -