Surgery as a Global health issue
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Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA; Adjunct Professor, School of Community and Global Health, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA Walter D. Johnson: [email protected] Corresponding author Received March 12, 2013; Accepted March 12, 2013. Copyright : © 2013 Johnson WD This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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