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Vital Signs
Facts & Figures
Emergency exit
1979
Year emergency medicine became a recognized specialty
1982
Year DHMC hired its first certified emergency physician
1995
Year DHMC became a Level I Trauma Center
2
Number of physicians (both residents) who saw patients in
DHMC's Emergency Department (ED) before 1982
14
Number of certified emergency physicians on the staff now
25,700
Number of certified emergency physicians in the U.S. now
12,000
Number of patients per year seen in DHMC's ED in 1982
32,000
Number per year seen now
2010
Year DHMC's first certified emergency physician,
Dr. Norman Yanofsky, is retiring as section chief
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