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You are a surgical trainee nearing the end of your training. You decide to take a break from surgical training and volunteer your services for 6 months in a rural hospital in southern Uganda. Your role initially concerns training local clinical officers in surgical techniques, while you adapt to the change in environment before taking on service provision. However, 3 days after your arrival, you are told that the senior surgeon has had to leave the hospital temporarily to care for a family member, and so you are left on your own. As you are digesting this information, a nurse walks into the ward bringing a message from the outpatient department which acts as an emergency department. There is someone with severe abdominal pain that the clinical officers are concerned about and have requested a surgical opinion.
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Mew, E. (2013). Tropical Surgery. In: MacGarty, D., Nott, D. (eds) Disaster Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4423-6_14
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