In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Emergency Medical Service ____

A) set a precedent of substantial government intervention in British health care
B) failed to come together because of disagreement between GPs and hospital-based specialists
C) took care of massive casualties in wartime London
D) managed the mass evacuation of women and children to the countryside


A

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