The discussion by Velmahos and Jurkovich
1
raises a significant issue faced by surgeons across the United States, namely, optimal
resource utilization including personnel, hospital, operating room, and not the least
financial. The premise is that the solution may lie in creating another subspecialty
in Surgery called Acute Care Surgery (thus indicating a fault with the current system).
However, the 2 index cases that they present (scenarios 2 and 3) have little to do
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Reference
- The concept of acute care surgery: a vision for the not-so-distant future.Surgery. 2007; 141: 288-290
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