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Wed Mar 28 15:28:04 BST 2007

Tim,

Not even in elective surgery - someone is going to have to know how to operate on the complications encountered by the video-laparoscopic surgeon who doesn't know how to operate under direct vision, or how to open the cavity he/she has placed a scope into!  

Geez - did I really say what I was thinking???

Best wishes,
Ron

>>> "Hardcastle, Tim, Dr <tch at sun.ac.za>" <tch at sun.ac.za> 3/28/2007 10:14 AM >>>
Dr Khattar

Extinct in elective surgery maybe......Trauma and emergency general surgery and in countries where the socio-economic conditions are poor - not likely! We need to have surgeons who can feel comfortable in all cavities and with all techniques; this is the palce of the Trauma/Acute Care general surgeon.

Regards
Tim
Dr T C Hardcastle
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[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org]On Behalf Of rm khattar
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:46 PM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org 
Subject: Extinction of Non laparoscopic surgeons

I recently came across  book on laparoscpy in Urologic
malignancies in which authors claimed that non
laparoscopic surgeons would become history.What is the
opinion of leaders in trauma surgery like
Karim,Ken,ERF,Tim on this issue? I am and doing
predominantly open surgery and do not see this
happening at least in next 20 years.

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