| When one is just starting school they will often be | | | | Due to the change over the last 35 years, there |
| asked what they want to be when they grow up. | | | | are new standards in the realm of emergency |
| Oftentimes, you will hear a handful say they want | | | | medicine, a emergency medicine job requirement |
| to be a lawyer, or a veterinarian, model, actress, | | | | is now a lot more demanding, and respected than |
| all the obvious; and probably, the most popular of | | | | it was back in the day. It is the staffs |
| them all is doctor. But do they really know at the | | | | responsibility to resuscitate, and stabilize using |
| age of 5 that they can be any kind of doctor | | | | whatever measures necessary to improve ones |
| that they want to be? How many of them know | | | | quality of life. After one is brought to a safe, |
| about emergency medicine jobs? Do they know | | | | stable status, but still enduring life-threatening |
| what that means? Does the average adult know | | | | ailments it is the emergency departments |
| what it means? | | | | physicians responsibility to see that the patient is |
| Before that time most hospitals considered it a | | | | admitted and consultations are in order for that |
| charitable obligation of sorts, if someone is in need | | | | patient. |
| of emergency care that it was the responsibility | | | | Ironically enough, the job market is hurting for |
| of the hospital to help them, regardless of their | | | | emergency medical job applicants, most times this |
| financial situation. Before the days of Thursday | | | | job s highly sought after, but due to the rather |
| night ER shows, and good looking actors and | | | | large gap in salary for an emergency room |
| actresses role playing the lives of stress-ridden | | | | physician compared to those who are in different |
| and overworked physicians, most emergency | | | | areas of medicine, there is not the desires to help |
| rooms were not staffed by physicians, a | | | | as there once was. On average an emergency |
| emergency medicine jobs were night a high | | | | room physician can make $229,00 annually, as |
| commodity, rather at the time they were staffed | | | | other physicians make in the upward amounts of |
| by charge nurses making telephone prescriptions | | | | $300,00 plus. Most teaching schools have a full |
| and only calling in a junior physician in extreme | | | | staff in the EM department due to residents |
| cases. There was certainly no demand nor need | | | | staying where they are within a facility they are |
| for high-tech equipment and shiny new tools for | | | | familiar with, and the understanding that salary |
| the emergency room. Without out a doubt | | | | increase comes with promotion to attending and |
| emergency medicine occupations have received a | | | | eventually chief of staff, this comes with time, |
| complete overhaul over the last decade. Before | | | | dedication and hard work. Often times they are |
| there was a need, most patients were | | | | not willing to throwaway time put in during their |
| automatically transported to a different facility | | | | resident stint. |
| without pre-op treatment, times have changed. | | | | |