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This small but weighty account of surgery began with the conviction that led its surgeon-editors, headed by Timothy S. Harrison, to venture into a land where their surgical skills were in short supply. Its message for surgeons rooted in the developed world is that there are huge populations with unmet needs for the simplest and most elementary surgical care. There are still people who die of strangulated hernia or ruptured tubal pregnancy, or who go through life crippled by congenital anomalies. There are still women condemned to pass a lifetime with rectovaginal or vesicovaginal fistulas because of the lack of
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