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Early Thoughts on Creating Comprehensive Trauma Centers This volume
has been many years in writing. When Dr. Donald Meichenbaum first
suggested it and I approached my coauthor Lasse Nurmi, it did not
seem to be as formidable a task as it has become. Interviewing the
centers in this book has taken years-to get responses, to summarize
those responses, and to return the summaries for further comment.
Many centers have been created in that time; others have suspended
operation. This volume does not claim to present even a majority of
those centers. However, the ones contained herein are
representative of "what is out there. " The idea to create a
comprehensive trauma center is not new. The initial section of this
forward examines thoughts I proposed as part of my compre hensive
examination for my doctorate. Many of the ideas proposed then
(1989) seem to fit now. It is my dream to put them into practice
someday in the future. THE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION QUESTION In
1989, one question on the written comprehensive examination ques
tions for my doctorate was, "If you were to create a comprehensive
trauma center in your suburban area, making use of what you have
learned in your doctoral] experience, describe the organization of
that center, the mission, structure, personnel, funding,
objectives, and services it would offer. " Some of the conclusions
reached then now seem applicable to the task at hand: design ing
comprehensive trauma centers (CTCs) for the 21st century."
Early Thoughts on Creating Comprehensive Trauma Centers This volume
has been many years in writing. When Dr. Donald Meichenbaum first
suggested it and I approached my coauthor Lasse Nurmi, it did not
seem to be as formidable a task as it has become. Interviewing the
centers in this book has taken years-to get responses, to summarize
those responses, and to return the summaries for further comment.
Many centers have been created in that time; others have suspended
operation. This volume does not claim to present even a majority of
those centers. However, the ones contained herein are
representative of "what is out there. " The idea to create a
comprehensive trauma center is not new. The initial section of this
forward examines thoughts I proposed as part of my compre hensive
examination for my doctorate. Many of the ideas proposed then
(1989) seem to fit now. It is my dream to put them into practice
someday in the future. THE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION QUESTION In
1989, one question on the written comprehensive examination ques
tions for my doctorate was, "If you were to create a comprehensive
trauma center in your suburban area, making use of what you have
learned in your doctoral] experience, describe the organization of
that center, the mission, structure, personnel, funding,
objectives, and services it would offer. " Some of the conclusions
reached then now seem applicable to the task at hand: design ing
comprehensive trauma centers (CTCs) for the 21st century."
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