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NOTES OF A SURGEON Previous Volume 349:2383-2386 December 18, 2003 Number 25 Next

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The puzzle was how the surgeons in India do it. Take a town like Nanded, 400 miles east of Mumbai (as Bombay is now called), in the center of India. The public hospital in Nanded serves a district of 1400 villages and 2.3 million people. It has 500 beds, three operating rooms and, I found when I visited, just nine general surgeons. (Think Washington, D.C., with just nine surgeons.) Its two main buildings are four stories high and made of cement and stucco. Surgeons arrive each morning to a crush of several hundred people pressing their way into the clinics. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health — both in Boston.

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Dispatch from India
Cherayil B. J., Sengupta N., Manohar N., Prodhan P.
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N Engl J Med 2004; 350:1471, Apr 1, 2004. Correspondence

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