New research published June 26, 2019 in JAMA Surgery and co-led by Temple’s Jessica H. Beard, M.D., M.P.H., examines one approach to tackling a shortage of surgeons available to perform inguinal hernia repair in sub-Saharan Africa: training medical doctors to perform the surgery. The research team found no statistically significant differences in hernia recurrence, post-surgery complications, patient satisfaction, or severe chronic pain when the procedure was performed by a medical doctor compared to a surgeon.
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org