The future of emergency medicine

I have made some predictions about what I feel will be the future of our specialty. I have carefully avoided entering into details of our practice because these will evolve gradually rather than in predictable quantum jumps. Although I fear and believe that the economic future of medicine lies with the corporate entity, and that more and more physicians will become employees of such corporations, I don't believe that this alters the professional responsibilities, nor do I think it will interfere with professional satisfactions. I believe that so long as the field continues to believe its primary mission is that of the life or limb threat, that there will continue to be a need for the specialty of Emergency Medicine. Finally I believe that given that mission, there is now and will continue to be in the future, no more fulfilling career.