title: Emergency medicine: a plan for the twenty-first century.
abstract: Emergency physicians, especially those currently charged with fiscal responsibility within their group, know very well the complicated issues of today's health care environment. We must remain open-minded about all the possible relationships that might ensure optimum patient care and our specialty's future.
authors.affiliation: Team Health, Knoxville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Massingale
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting