Global neurosurgery : a reflection from a life in the field / Robert J. Dempsey.
Dempsey, Robert J. author.
2023
RD593
Available Online

Linked e-resources

Linked Resource Online Access
Concurrent users Unlimited
Authorized users Authorized users
Document Delivery Supplied Can lend chapters, not whole ebooks

Details

Title Global neurosurgery : a reflection from a life in the field / Robert J. Dempsey.
Author Dempsey, Robert J. author.
ISBN 9783031410499 (electronic bk.)
3031410491 (electronic bk.)
9783031410482
3031410483
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41049-9
Published Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 146 pages) : color illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-41049-9 doi
Call Number RD593
Dewey Decimal Classification 617.4/8
Summary During his training, neurosurgeon Robert J. Dempsey, M.D. was told that global health was something for infectious diseases and not possible in super-specialties. This is the story of questioning that belief, of addressing a massive need by working in the areas of need, going to numerous ministers of health worldwide and showing them that with the training of even a few neurosurgeons, we can complete a trauma system in their country. The result is now we can also provide care for cancer, stroke and congenital defects of newborn children where it was previously impossible. In 2015, the Lancet Commissio's report predicted, over the next few years, 47 million unnecessary deaths worldwide due to the lack of essential surgeries. This book relates the importance of rectifying that ongoing tragedy and, more importantly, the humanizing influences that such a journey has had on a super-specialist working with the people of greatest need. 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 Neurosurgery covers the thought-provoking and often frightening lessons learned over four decades of neurosurgical involvement in global health, working from a period when little or none existed to the present state of specialized healthcare in the area of need. This process starts in the U.S. and then addresses health disparity on four continents and now on U.S. tribal reservations. It emphasizes the importance of first listening, then partnering with government, medical societies, universities and private foundations, and most importantly, learning from mistakes. The programs developed allow the recipients of the care to take over the training so that it becomes about them and their patients in their home lands. It will appeal to a wide audience because its stories explain actual worldwide health conditions while giving an insight valuable to the professional or lay person into the experiences and operating rooms of a neurosurgeon working under very difficult conditions.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 11, 2023).
Available in Other Form Global Neurosurgery
Linked Resources Online Access
Record Appears in Online Resources > Ebooks
All Resources
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.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export