Abstract
Eighty junior doctors in the acute specialties received a postal questionnaire aimed at assessing their ability to assign priority to the treatment of patients who may have sustained serious trauma. Forty-eight doctors (60%) replied. Of these, three doctors (6%) correctly assigned all patients; 44% failed to identify the three patients in most urgent need of treatment.
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