Highlights from this issue

Last winter was a difficult Winter for Emergency Medicine (EM), ED and the staff who work within them. The unacceptable pressures that faced us have only partly gone away and many of us have probably not fully recovered. Stress levels were high, dissatisfaction wide spread, the patients kept coming, and few appeared to leave.

As the year rushes by and Winter can be seen on the not too distant horizon, this themed issue of the EMJ is timely and of significant relevance in focussing upon stress, psychological well-being and job satisfaction amongst a range of Emergency Department staff from both within this country and abroad. Four articles examine this subject and are supported by an excellent commentary from Liz Crowe and her colleagues.

Emergency medicine is a great career:

The first article is a qualitative narrative study interviewing a small number of Consultants from a variety of large...

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