emergency medicine

[ih-mur-juhn-see med-uh-sin]

noun

1. a branch of medicine dealing with acute illness and other medical emergencies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of emergency medicine¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

As exemptions have grown, Meghan Martin, a paediatric emergency medicine doctor at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in Florida, said she has seen more outbreaks of vaccine-preventable illnesses in recent years.

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Alongside critical care practitioners are highly-trained consultants who cover the shifts on a rota basis in addition to their NHS hospital roles, each of them a specialist in "pre-hospital emergency medicine".

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"One of the findings of this new report is that parents have no easy way to check their child's vaccination status," says children's emergency medicine specialist, Dr Stewart.

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If the pandemic pushed many generation practitioners to quit, imagine the toll it took on emergency medicine.

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I’m an addiction and emergency medicine physician in southern Arizona, a region highly politicized by the war on drugs.

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