Abstract
In this issue of Emergency Care Journal we publish a letter from some young colleagues from CoSMEU (the Italian association of Emergency Medicine, EM).1
 They express great concern on the several aspects the EM situation in Italy.2 The first issue is the collapse of the Emergency Departments (ED)2,3 caused by crowding/boarding combined with low available resources, particularly regarding EM physicians. The logical consequence is that EM is no longer attractive neither for “older” (indeed, not so much) physicians who are leaving their careers in great number, or “younger” doctors who are not attracted by the EM specialization,4 despite growing available access (up to 1000 training positions) in the recent years. [...]
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