RT Book, Section
A1 Cydulka, Rita K.
A1 Fitch, Michael T.
A1 Joing, Scott A.
A1 Wang, Vincent J.
A1 Cline, David M.
A1 Ma, O. John
SR Print(0)
ID 1143138897
T1 Preface
T2 Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual, 8e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071837026
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1143138897
RD 2024/04/19
AB Prior  to  the  spring  of  my  third  year  of  medical  school,  I  hadn’t  heard  of  the  specialty  emergency  medicine.  I  didn’t  know  where  in  the  medical  center  our  “emergency  room”  (ER)1  was  and  I  didn’t  know  that  we  had  a  combined  emergency  medicine  (EM)/internal  medicine  (IM)  residency  program.  Apparently,  they  didn’t  promote  the  program  much  among  the  medical  students.  One  day,  shortly  before  I  was  to  begin  my  final  year  of  medical  school,  an  EM/IM  resident  enlightened  me  and  convinced  me  to  squeeze  an  EM  elective  into  my  upcoming  schedule.  Fast  forward  a  few  months,  I  began  my  EM  rotation  and  was  hooked.  On  September  21,1979,  three  weeks  into  my  EM  elective,  emergency  medicine  (EM)  was  recognized  as  the  23rd  American  specialty.  Yes,  I’m  that  old  and  so  is  our  specialty.