[HSF] (OT?) Medicine as practice: what every surgeon should know

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Dear Tea,
In 1949 I had a different experience from yours. I spent time with a fellow  
student and his uncle who was a doctor in the Transkei in South Africa looking 
 after  a rural population of Xosas leading a traditoional tribal life. He  
provided weekly Clinics within a quite wide area.  Many of the clinics  could 
not be reached by a road. The locals still used ox drawn sleds for moving  
heavy loads. We travelled in a surplus WWII Jeep. At each there were a  couple of  



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