Reducing the need for surgeons by reducing pollution-derived workload: Is there a role for surgeons?

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Review Article

Department

Urology; Surgery

Abstract

The need for additional surgical workforce personnel is likely to increase dramatically at a rate beyond our capacity to train them. As surgical training programmes cannot be rapidly expanded, this paper explores an alternative solution to the quandary, a reduction of the disease burden by a war on pollution. Highlighting the role of pollutants in increasing the surgical workload, it identifies potential roles for surgeons in the battle against pollution and draws attention to the need to research out agents which could protect humans against their carcinogenic effects.

Publication (Name of Journal)

International Journal of Surgery

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