Air Medical Journal
Volume 26, Issue 6 , Pages 256-258 , November 2007

HEMS: Luxury or necessity?

  • Thomas Judge, CCT-P

      Affiliations

    • Thomas Judge, CCT-P, is the executive director of LifeFlight of Maine in Bangor/Lewiston, Maine, and the immediate past president of the Association of Air Medical Services.

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 Editor's Note: Air Medical Journal is participating in the Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development, a project of The Council of Science Editors. Journals throughout the world are simultaneously publishing papers on this topic of worldwide interest to raise awareness, generate interest, and stimulate research into poverty and human development. This is an international collaboration with hundreds of journals from developed and developing countries. Please go to http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/globalthemeissue.cfm for more information.The editors thank Thomas Judge for contributing this guest editorial on the poorer populations served by medical transport programs throughout the world.

PII: S1067-991X(07)00218-0

doi: 10.1016/j.amj.2007.09.001

Air Medical Journal
Volume 26, Issue 6 , Pages 256-258 , November 2007

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