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Changing the Language

Holmes John trauma-list@trauma.org
Thu, 9 May 2002 08:44:00 +1000 

Australia + New Zealand + Papua Nugini
JLH
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From: Mark Robinson
To: trauma-list@trauma.org; 'trauma-list@trauma.org'
Subject: Re: Changing the Language
Date: Wednesday, 8 May 2002 8:40

Now you've piqued my curiosity, where the exactly is Australasia?

At 10:44 AM 5/7/02 +1000, Holmes John wrote:
>It is for exactly the reasons outlined in recent posts that the terminology
>"Accident & Emergency" - which still persists in the UK - has been
abandoned
>in Australasia.  Why differentiate "accidents" from other emergencies
>anyhow?  -  the victims of trauma get identical treatment irrespective of
>whether the event was preventable or not.
>
>John L Holmes
>Director Emergency Medicine
>Mater Hospitals, Brisbane
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