Dr. Amanda Waugh is a physician who works at an emergency department to care for acutely ill patients. Dr. Amanda Waugh is a specialist in advanced cardiac life support trauma care such as fractures and soft tissue injuries, and management of other life-threatening situations. Dr. Amanda Waugh has saved countless lives. But Dr. Amanda Waugh has also witnessed sorrow, suffering and preventable death. Dr. Amanda Waugh treats everything from a Common Cold to a Heart Attack.

Emergency Medicine encompasses a large amount of general medicine and surgery including the surgical sub-specialties states Dr. Amanda Waugh. Dr. Amanda Waugh is tasked with seeing a large number of patients, treating their illnesses and arranging for disposition—either admitting them to the hospital or releasing them after treatment as necessary. Dr. Amanda Waugh requires a broad field of knowledge and advanced procedural skills often including surgical procedures, trauma resuscitation, advanced cardiac life support and advanced airway management. Dr. Amanda Waugh must have skills of many specialists—the ability to resuscitate a patient (Critical Care Medicine), manage a difficult airway (Anesthesia), suture a complex laceration (Plastic Surgery), reduce (set) a fractured bone or dislocated joint (Orthopedic surgery), treat a heart attack (Cardiology), work-up a pregnant patient with vaginal bleeding (Obstetrics and Gynecology), stop a bad nosebleed (ENT), place a chest tube (Cardiothoracic Surgery), and to conduct and interpret ultrasounds (Radiology).