How to make emergency departments work – essay

Last Resort: How the rebirth of general medicine will save lives, by Karen Hitchcock has just been published in the Australian current affairs magazine,The Monthly. Hitchcock, who is a hospital doctor, discusses the problems with emergency department waiting times and the way they are being addressed in Australia.  She calls for an upheaval of the system and a focus on general medicine, with the ideal of every person walking in being seen by a senior consultant straight away.