Supporting Hospital Doctors in the Middle East by Email Telemedicine: Something the Industrialized World Can Do to Help

• Main Authors: Patterson, Victor (Author), Swinfen, Pat (Author), Swinfen, Roger (Author), Azzo, Emil (Author), Taha, Husen (Author), Wootton, Richard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2007-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Since 1999, the Swinfen Charitable Trust has operated an email referral system between doctors in the developing world and specialists in the industrialized world. Since 2001, it has expanded its operation into the Middle East, in particular Iraq, an area of considerable conflict. Objecti...