The common theme that attracts many to emergency practice is an interested in all of the most exciting aspects of each major specialty but a reluctance to giving up on what other specialties offered at the same time. Emergency medicine, unlike any other field, combines all of these aspects for its practitioners. However, while offering a combination of skills and knowledge found nowhere else, it offers unusual challenges at the same time. There are few opportunities to develop long term relationships with patients and the need to be ready to meet any challenge from psychiatric to surgical or medical disasters can be stressful while at the same.
