Establishing a specialty Bullard observes that in recent years, with the emergence of cerebrovascular disorders, cardiovascular disease and accidental injury as three of the top 10 causes of death in Taiwan and the rise in the occurrence of accidents brought on by urbanization and industrialization, emergency medicine has been growing in importance.
成立「急診醫學科」卜樂得指出，近年來，由於腦血管病變、心臟血管疾病、意外傷害已分佔台灣十大死因前幾位，再加上都市和工業發展造成的意外災難和核安、毒氣等潛在因素，急診醫療的需求日益緊迫。