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Michael G. Sarr, MD
Rochester, Minn

Arch Surg. 2000;135:720.

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RECENTLY, I had the opportunity to visit South Africa for 2 weeks as a visiting professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein. This area represents the heart of the original European Dutch settlers (now Afrikaaners), the center of the Boer Republic, and one of the areas where the now-hated apartheid movement originated. I found a country dismantling the apartheid regime and struggling with the many new concerns of both the government and the health care providers—how to nationally integrate the very poor and vast areas of this country now functioning as a Third World nation with other less prevalent areas of considerable wealth functioning as a First World nation. Spending only 8 working days there, I fully acknowledge that I received but a glimpse of the true country (and that largely was from the specter of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]