The Importance of Teamwork in Emergency Medicine

"It's very reasonable to graduate from an emergency medicine residency, go out to a place and be solo coverage," he says. "I don't think it's fair for the patient to rely on that, you know, perfect alignment of the stars." Dan: When my residents tell the nurses they can't help them clean up the patient that's soiled their own bed, that's not my job. But by the same token, anything that is mission critical is your job".