title: Team work in the proper sense.
abstract: Triage does seem to be a bit of an unloved child these days. However, rumours of its demise are greatly exaggerated. While there is a view that there is no evidence that triage is effective, as Jill Windle notes in her Editorial Board's eye view on page 9 , triage allows order to be borne of chaos and gives an ever changing and indeterminate patient caseload a sense of organisation.