[HSF] Ahh, the Holiday Transfer. Would anyone do anything different?

[Nasser F. Abou'Seada]

Dear Ben
Could not agree more ......... in fact that was the answer for a higher
conscious mind .... the simple one answer is that a team is certainly
required .... the deeper thinking is that training of the "locals" is
certainly what is needed .... all the locals .... making a local team ...
not just showing some heroic procedures that could be clearly seen on a live
broadcast at the internet from some distant hospital ... thinking that this
may raise the surgical standards at a certain location is like improving the
traffic in a certain country by observing the traffic in Ohio ...
Still ........ the deepest vision to my mind is what you have started with
.... a state of the mind starting at the top .... with a vision setting up
the frame of thinking and allowing for the construction of a
suitable plateform ... on which building on can continue ........ training
the locals is certainly just one of these steps to follow ......... training
a super-natural surgeon or whatever to demonstrate complex complicated
procedures in an ambiguous environment .. is certainly the last that is
thought off as a direct means of raising the surgical standards at a certain
location ...... ... no wonder Roger Mee was the one bringing that matter to
the lime light ...... his experience in Cleveland was very enriching by all
means and in all aspects ....

Your comment was very insightful .... as always expected ...

NFA

On Dec 1, 2007 5:39 AM, Ben Bidstrup <benjamin.bidstrup at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Roger Mee gave a talk on this very subject at the Asian Association
> Meeting in Bali (immediately preceding the World Climate Conference).
> It is far more than just a few surgeons, but a state of mind starting
> at the top.
>
> Applicable to adults surgery as well.
>
> >that leads to an important question : what are the variables and
> parameters
> >that determine the success of a certain surgical program ... let it be a
> >paediatric and neonatal cardiac Surgical program at a certain area -
> >Country-  ........... is it just the Surgical Competency to perform a
> >certain set of procedures ?? .... I suppose it is enough then to have
> some
> >surgeons trained at the best centres in the world and return them back
> >"home" to perform such "Procedures" in any case anatomically diagnosed as
> a
> >certain Syndrome .... !!!! ......... is raising the surgical standards in
> a
> >certain milieu just limited to the ability to perform a certain technique
> >???? ... ani ? .. your input ? ..
> >
> >On Nov 30, 2007 6:02 AM, <Hgrmd at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  Bill,
> >>   Not to sound corny, but what you are doing really represents America
>  at
> >>  its best.  I'm proud that guys like you can go out to these developing
> >>   areas
> >>  and help raise the surgical standards.  Keep on keeping on.
> >>
> >>  Hal
> >>
> >>
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