Articles: emergency-medicine.
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Seventy-seven percent of emergency physicians (EPs) work as either employees or independent contractors (ICs). In contrast, other hospital-based physicians such as radiologists and anesthesiologists have a much higher percentage of ownership in their medical practices. ⋯ This will inevitably result in less self-determination for their future. Combined with the great strides EM has achieved as a specialty, EPs' brightest future lies in being citizens of a broader, more expansive, all encompassing EM practice.
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Trauma is a third killer of modern european and world societies. Everywhere in Europe there is the great necessity of having an efficient emergency prehospital and hospital trauma care organization which will reduce mortality and invalidity of the trauma critical patients. Three objectives are the most important: 1) defining of the lines guide (e.g. ⋯ Emergency Surgical Training should be established on three levels namely; 1) within the undergraduate medical curriculum 2) complementary training in emergency surgery during the general surgery specialization 3) additional theoretical and practical training for emergency nurses. There are many cultural and organizational differences among the "old and new" European Countries. The most important and special objective is the evolution of a correct and equal education in training care in order to improve our situation.