General or Specialist Surgeons?

Ulcer surgery for non-specialist surgeons.

In the majority of cases, plantar ulcers in need of surgical intervention can be treated by very simple procedures. Patients benefit from treatment facilities near to their homes. In the process of integration surgery could be made available to leprosy patients in peripheral health units near their homes by training non-specialist surgeons in peripheral health units in basic surgical procedures...

A general practitioner or a specialist for your infected smartphone?

With explosive growth in the number of mobile devices, the mobile malware is rapidly spreading as well, and the number of encountered malware families is increasing. Existing solutions, which are mainly based on one malware detector running on the phone or in the cloud, are no longer effective. Main problem lies in the fact that it might be impossible to create a unique mobile malware detector ...

Appendectomies in rural hospitals. Safe whether performed by specialist or GP surgeons.

OBJECTIVE To compare outcomes of appendectomies performed in rural hospitals by specialist surgeons and GP surgeons. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of the Canadian Institute for Health Information's (CIHI) Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) 1996-1999. SETTING Rural hospitals in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia. PARTICIPANTS All surgeons who performed appendectomies in th...

General surgeons and endoscopy training.

The general practitioner and the specialist.