Comments from a Veteran Mission Surgeon

Comments on "Ballistics: a primer for the surgeon".

In response to a published assertion to the contrary, this paper briefly reviews many studies that document remote wounding effects of ballistic pressure waves including experiments in pigs and dogs that find brain injury resulting from animal models shot in the thigh and case studies in humans that document both remote brain and spinal cord injuries ascribed to ballistic pressure waves. The au...

Wish You a Happy and Safe Diwali: From a Plastic Surgeon

From the Surgeon General.

Trusting the surgeon: a tornado from Bristol.

The latest edition of the Medical Journal of Australia presents an article by Stephen Bolsin, a British anaesthetist now working in Australia (Bolsin 1998). He describes how, as early as 1987, there was talk behind closed doors in the United Kingdom Department of Health about worrying results of paediatric cardiac surgery at a large public hospital in southern England, the Bristol Royal Infirma...

Comments from Meghnad Desai Comments from Carl Riskin Comments from Keijiro Otsuka

Introduction The two documents before us—the Draft Final Report and Policy Directions—are comprehensive and detailed. The Report carries out an extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Western Region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with a view to aiding the Great Western Development Strategy (GWDS). The 19 chapters of the Report cover a range of topics—natural resources, h...