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Ken, Tim and all other surgeons on this list...

I wholeheartedly agree with both of your assessments regarding limiting 
your practice to one area of surgery (be that trauma, CVT, what have 
you)...this makes for bad doctors...and it is nice to hear that both of 
you, though experts in your own fields, still manage to partake in 
appy's and chole's...

Well along the same lines, emergentologist are routinely called to 
manage ALL types of medical/pediatric/geriatric and yes even simple 
surgical presentations...let's not even go into the skill set needed 
for the multitasking to run an ER...

This list is heavy on the surgical bias...no problem with that...it's 
just that once in a while, the emerg guys should also be praised for 
what they routinely are called to do


Joe
McGill University
Montreal




Ken

Must agree completely - your basics come from general surgery or a 
similar general discipline (Yours being Cardiovascular, no doubt). 
Without regular refreshing of the basics one loses the technical 
qualities that make trauma special - being knowledgeable about 
everything. Where the TS is a specialist in his/her own right is the 
ICU advanced training.

Tim

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