They also fail to understand that for a few patients, 5 minutes is an eternity. It means everything, and everyone else must wait while we attend to these patients.
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ACEP News: Vol 28 – No 12 – December 2009We still practice in a world where specialists descend from above and bark orders like we are their indentured servants. Who do they think they are, the federal government? An emergency physician would never walk into the operating room or the office of another physician and think that they could tell another physician what to do.
It could be that, after 30 years, we can conclude that all the education and marketing we can muster will not overcome arrogance and selfishness.
There will always be those, with and without letters after their name, who will never understand what we do–but will still demand that we do it on their terms.
DR. BAEHREN lives in Ottawa Hills, Ohio. He practices emergency medicine and is an assistant professor at the University of Toledo (Ohio) Medical Center. Your feedback is welcomed at David.Baehren@utoledo.edu.
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