What is the difference between a trauma surgeon and an emergency medicine doctor?
A. It is common for people to confuse emergency medicine physicians with trauma surgeons. Their training and expertise is actually quite different. Emergency medicine is a unique specialty requiring at least three years of training in order to provide initial care to a wide range of medical or surgical emergencies. Trauma surgery and surgical critical care is a specialty, which requires at least six years of training after medical school. The expertise of trauma and critical care surgeons extend to the entire range of surgical and traumatic emergencies. Trauma and critical care surgeons comprehensively manage patients from arrival in the emergency department through the operating room when needed, through the intensive care unit and surgical floors and on to rehabilitation.
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