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Surgery in Costa Rica
Enrique Feoli, MD;
Vladimir Badilla, MD;
Marcela Bermudez, MD;
Edgar Mendez, MD;
Xiomara Badilla, MSc
Arch Surg. 2002;137:1435-1440.
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INTRODUCTION
This article describes how surgery developed in Costa Rica and how it was nurtured to its present status. The practice of surgery in Costa Rica developed slowly as a charitable service. In the past 3 decades, it became accessible to 87.6% of the population through the creation of a national health service system. Our objective herein is to give the reader an understanding of how surgical practice originated and matured in Costa Rica, viewed in the broader context of medical practice in a fledgling and poor New World colony. Also discussed are social and political sentiments in the country that are thought to have helped evolve the present surgical standard.
2001 DESCRIPTIVE DATA OF COSTA RICA
Costa Rica is a democratic republic, with its capital in San José. It has a literacy rate of 94.8%, an infant mortality of 11.2% per . . . [Full Text of this Article]
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
SURGICAL FACILITIES
COST OF SURGICAL SERVICES
CAPACITY
SURGICAL SPECIALTIES
SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS
MEDICAL SCHOOLS AND GRADUATE TRAINING
RESEARCH FACILITIES
INTERNET ACCESS
PRIVATE SURGICAL FACILITIES
ANESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE
SURGICAL SOCIETY
CONCLUSIONS
From the Research Center and Experimental Surgery Department, Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología Costa Rica (Dr Feoli); Departments of Surgery, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas and Universidad de Iberoamerica (Drs Badilla and Mendez); Services of Orthopedics and Trauma (Dr Badilla) and Thoracic Surgery (Dr Mendez), Hospital Mexico; Emergency Clinic Pavas (Dr Bermudez); and Department of Epidemiologic Vigilance, Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (Ms Badilla), San José, Costa Rica.
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