title: The future of emergency medicine.
abstract: I have made some predictions about what I feel will be the future of our specialty. I have carefully avoided entering into details of our practice because these will evolve gradually rather than in predictable quantum jumps. Although I fear and believe that the economic future of medicine lies with the corporate entity, and that more and more physicians will become employees of such corporations, I don't believe that this alters the professional responsibilities, nor do I think it will interfere with professional satisfactions. I believe that so long as the field continues to believe its primary mission is that of the life or limb threat, that there will continue to be a need for the specialty of Emergency Medicine. Finally I believe that given that mission, there is now and will continue to be in the future, no more fulfilling career.
mesh_terms: D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006123:Group Practice; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D010821:Physicians, Family; D012106:Research; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013038:Specialization; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce