Global Neurosurgery A Reflection from a Life in the Field
It concludes that in spite of massive need,the present situation is actually very hopeful, as we have shifted the focus of global health from service alone to partnered teaching, leading us now to self-sustaining systems of care delivered for and by the people in the regions of need. Global Neurosur...
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Springer Nature Switzerland
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Lessons Learned from Four Decades of Neurosurgical Global Health Experience
- A Life in Global Health: Preserving What Is Noble in a Profession
- First Influences. Where Does All This Start?
- Second Influences: Appalachia
- Appalachian Patients
- Appalachian Clinics
- Seasons of the Year
- Guatemala
- Chicken Buses, Dugout Canoes, Pickup Trucks and Shoe Leather
- Applying Lessons Learned to a New Area of Neurosurgical Need
- Why Work So Hard?
- Hold Hope
- Picking a Site for Neurosurgical Service: Ecuador
- Family
- The Red Scrub Cap
- First Surgeries
- FIENS
- Africa
- Operating in a Strange Land
- Worldwide Partners in Global Neurosurgery: The Concept of Dyads
- OR Equipment and Establishing Neurosurgery in a New Region
- The Lancet Report 2015
- Continuing Medical Education in the Global World
- Persistence
- Service Through Education
- The Corners of the Day
- Teaching is Doctoring, Doctoring is Teaching
- Why I Do Research
- Native American Health
- Children and Family in Global Health
- Danger
- Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned
- The Magic That Makes Us a Person
- What Did We Learn From COVID-19
- On Death
- The Way Forward
- Epilogue