This frontier of medicine and surgery has been largely ignored for many years

Medical and surgical research is breaking boundaries at an astounding pace. From genetic modification and stem cell therapy to robotic and 3-D printing technology, scientific advancement is finding novel, unique and unprecedented solutions to complex, challenging diseases. Indeed, such is the rate of change that I am certain the last eight years of my surgical training in the UK will likely be rendered obsolete within the next twenty years of amazing, exciting, ground breaking advancements. However, despite these ongoing achievements, I fear we as a scientific community have a much greater challenge ahead of us: a frontier of medicine and surgery that has been largely ignored for many years. In 2015, The Lancet Commission published a startling study describing the state of global surgery and that five billion people across the world lacked access to safe surgery. 33 million per year were quoted as sustaining catastrophic financial hardship as a result of having surgery. Although these numbers are hard to truly absorb, they trigger a deep connection within me; my travels since 2008 allow me to put people’s stories and faces to those horrendous statistics. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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