Think globally act locally: the case for symphysiotomy.
expert_opinion · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 17388656.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1831724.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
When 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.
Medical subject headings
- Symphysiotomy