Moving Forward

Military medicine and civilian medicine are more intertwined than most people realize, especially during the golden hour of prehospital and emergency medicine. Although research provides the evidence to uphold new ideas, “Integration of military medicine into civilian medicine really happens in the clinical setting,” Dr. Fontenette says. “Between deployments, military physicians keep up their medical skills by working in civilian hospitals, and they bring their modes of practice with them.” Austere environments like the battlefront foster some of the most innovative ideas, and with the collaboration of EPs on both sides, the military’s openness to new initiatives and academia’s rigor in research can translate these lessons to civilian medicine.

Dr. Sophia Gorgens

Dr. Görgens is part of the Zucker Emergency Medicine Residency at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Her work has been  published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and Annals of Emergency Medicine, and she is the newest guest resident editor for the AMA Journal of Ethics.

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