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Published in: World Journal of Surgery 8/2006

01-08-2006

The Rural Surgeon and Ivory Towers

Author: Moshe Schein, MD, FACS

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 8/2006

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Excerpt

It is snowing again. At 2 a.m., I get a call from the ER doctor: “I have a middle-aged man who just came in with a blood pressure of 40 and abdominal pain. Earlier today he had an elective computerized tomography (CT) (in a nearby town) which showed an 8-cm solid mass in the right lobe of the liver...his pain started a few hours later...I need your help.” …
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Title
The Rural Surgeon and Ivory Towers
Author
Moshe Schein, MD, FACS
Publication date
01-08-2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
World Journal of Surgery / Issue 8/2006
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-005-0747-9

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