In the Eve of the New Year

I would have liked to write about one of the articles published in this issue of the AMM. Research is rewarding and any effort to improve the patients’ outcome is to be encouraged. The year 2016 comes to an end shaking dramatically the medical “parochial society” of the home town of this journal.
The now national emergency medical system was born in Tg.Mures and one of the volunteers while still a student was a remarkable young anaesthetist and PhD student, Orsolya Benedek (Orshee for her next of kin). She was a member of the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Chair of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Tg.Mures. The University lost this autumn not only the first professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in our region, Prof Mircea Chiorean and a supporter of emergency medicine, but also one of the newest members of the chair, Dr Orsolya Benedek. While the professor passed away peacefully among his former students, Orshee was stripped brutally this chance. [More]

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