Edited by David Skinner, Andrew Swain, Rodney Peyton, and Colin Robertson, with Fiona Whimster. 1271 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. $225. ISBN 0-521-43379-7.
In the United States, the recognition of emergency medicineas a distinct specialty has been a long process, requiring atleast 10 years and many separate steps. The evolution of emergencymedicine has included the development of independent trainingprograms, the identification of focused areas of research, careerdevelopment, academic recognition, and the publication of anindependent and directed body of literature, including textbooks.The last element is important because the literature of a specialtyprovides tangible evidence that it is practiced under uniqueconditions and within specific limits, according to algorithmsand treatment plans that usually cannot be extended . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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