Emergency medicine clinics of North America
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This article has presented an overview of the duties, responsibilities, and management roles of the emergency department Medical Director, a position that can be among the most challenging, stimulating, and exciting in medicine. However, prior to accepting a position as an Emergency Department medical director, one should have a clear understanding of what the job entails. ⋯ Once the job has been accepted, using the roles, responsibilities, and duties detailed herein may be of benefit--but should always be applied with good judgment, tactful cooperation, and common sense. Finally, it should not be surprising to a medical director to find, as Spinoza did many years ago, that the excellent thing he aspires to are as difficult as they are rare.
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This article discusses current applications of computers in the Emergency Department. Different approaches for computerization are compared, and difficulties and problems of computerization are discussed.
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This article discusses risk management and control of malpractice risk in the Emergency Department. Particular emphasis is placed on actuarial information related to Emergency Department losses.
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Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · Feb 1987
Medical direction in emergency medical services: the role of the physician.
The past two decades has seen the development of sophisticated systems of prehospital care. The task now is to intensify the input of well-trained physicians into all aspects of EMS systems. This article tracks the history of EMS in this country and provides some suggested answers to the difficult questions facing this new specialty.