Re: Accident and emergency medicine--II by R. C. Evans and R. J. Evans.

Accident and emergency medicine--II.

The principle ofprioritization by degree ofurgency obviously benefits patients whose condition is critical. This practice should be instilled in all who work in accident and emergency medicine. The Patients' Charter" highlights the importance of triage and states that patients should be seen immediately and their need for treatment assessed. Triage derives from the French word meaning 'to sort'...

Martin J. Evans - Nobel Lecture

Alice C. Evans: breaking barriers.

Despite severe and persistent criticism of her research, Alice Evans persevered in her pioneering work on the bacterial contamination of milk, identifying the organism that caused undulant fever and demonstrating that drinking unpasteurized cow's milk could transmit the disease, undulant fever, to humans. The opprobrium that Alice Evans endured was unrelenting, even after her election as the fi...

Evans Treating migraine in the emergency department

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?