A Canadian approach?

Letters

CJEM 1999;1(3):161-162

To the editor:

Congratulations on the launch of CJEM. This journal represents a landmark achievement in Canadian emergency medicine and is long overdue. It’s important for us to realize that the US approach is not the only standard of care, and perhaps not the best one. Finally Canadian emergency physicians will have an alternative to the legally-driven, overly investigation-oriented USA style of practice. CJEM will enable us to publish our own standards of care, guided by logic, evidence and common sense rather than by the Bar Association, the National Rifle Association, commercial interests and big industry. In addition, CJEM is showing us that medical journals don’t have to be dry, with a stiff upper lip. An informal approach that is intellectual and, at the same time, humorous, provides the ideal format for learning. Congratulations on a job well done.

Anurag Saincher, MD
Surrey, BC