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each of us must face daily no matter where our surgical interests lie—the care for
ever greater numbers of more intensely ill patients with fewer resources committed
in redundant overservicing. This educational effort might be well invested in sharing
the tropical surgical burden with colleagues worldwide in the innovations that
are helping adapt to the large surgical patient population amid the tropics, and the
majority of the world’s underserved population.
Creativity and ingenuity is the ultimate surgical skill when applied to pressing
human problems. As we once considered a very imposing surgical challenge, the
following thematic phrase was exchanged in planning the care for a number of needy
patients: “We have no money; therefore, we must think!”
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