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Think Globally Act Locally: The Case for Symphysiotomy. [PLoS Med] Journal article

 
TitleThink Globally Act Locally: The Case for Symphysiotomy.
Author(s)Verkuyl DA 
SourcePLoS Med 2007 Mar 27; 4(3):e71.
AbstractWhen expatriate doctors from developed countries working in sub-Saharan Africa suggest to the local doctors and midwives that symphysiotomies should sometimes be done, they are silenced neither with quotations from the medical literature nor with tales of patients seen, but with: "If symphysiotomies are such good operations why don't you perform them at home?" Here is why.
LanguageENG
Pub Type(s)JOURNAL ARTICLE
PubMed ID17388656
  
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