The rural surgeon: a practice to strive for

Vanitha Raguveer^#^{1

2}, Riya Sawhney^#³, Nobhojit Roy^{4

5}, Nakul Raykar^{1

6}

Affiliations

¹ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
³ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Mumbai, India.
⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Mumbai, India nobhojit.roy@ki.se.
⁵ Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Editorial

Vanitha Raguveer et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2024.

. 2024 Apr 15;9(4):e013449.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013449.

Vanitha Raguveer^#^{1

2}, Riya Sawhney^#³, Nobhojit Roy^{4

5}, Nakul Raykar^{1

6}

¹ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
³ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Mumbai, India.
⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Mumbai, India nobhojit.roy@ki.se.
⁵ Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: Surgery.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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