“What does an emergency physician do?”
I just want to know what an emergency physician does in their day-to-day? Do they treat the same conditions as a regular physician?
3 Answers
Find out and does an initial assessment for the emergency condition and give first line of treatment.
Emergency physicians are trained to see any patient with any condition that may walk through the doors of the emergency department. We do a residency in emergency medicine. Emergency medicine is now a specialty, just like an ENT doctor is a specialist. We are experts in true emergencies and are able to rule out the real emergency conditions, including ones that are maybe just urgent. In our day-to-day work, we see things over time that other doctors will likely never see.
An ER doc sees and evaluates and treats patients and will make a disposition on all of his or her patients. They will discharge or admit the patient to the hospital
