The crisis of the Italian emergency medicine and specialty: The point of view of COSMEU
https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2022.10385
Accepted: 2 February 2022
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Dear Editors,
We have read with great interest the letter by Poggiali et al.1 and your editorial2 published in the issue of December 2021 of Emergency Care Journal. We completely agree with all the observations reported by the authors, and we believe that the point of view of the Italian residents in emergency medicine represented by COSMEU (Coordinamento Specializzandi in Medicina d’Emergenza-Urgenza, the program coordinator of the Italian emergency medicine residents) is crucial to clearly analyse and understand the crisis of the Italian national health system and most of all, of our specialty. [...]
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