Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Fry, and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

Okay, Tracy there have always been situations where people have been in need of immediate medical

care.

Yep, that's just part of being a human.

And we spoke recently in an episode about how military needs during wartime have driven

a lot of innovation in emergency medicine, but of course civilians need emergency care

as well.

And our current pandemic has brought the focus on to the medical care providers who are

often doing far more than seems humanly possible to take care of their patients.

And as I continued to see headlines specifically about how to know when to seek emergency care

during this time.

But maybe I want to talk about some of the really big moments in emergency medicine as a developing

field because it's actually still a baby.

It's a fairly new area in medicine.

And also we want to make sure that in the interest of expectations management, we let everybody

know that this is primarily looking at emergency care in the US.

We briefly mentioned developments in other countries just here and there, but that's about

it and even narrowed down mostly to one country.

It is still a two-parter and it is still nowhere near comprehensive.

There are entire books written about the history of emergency care just in the US, but I wanted

to talk about it and kind of honor the people that do it.

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