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Maurice King is one of my heroes. We used his books on many MSF missions in remote, unstable regions of the world. I will never forget our small team performing a fetal craniotomy by flashlight (in South Sudan, 2002) following the instructions from King’s Primary Surgery book. The woman had been carried in by family members, after journeying on foot for four days to reach us. She was septic but once the baby was removed, she made a remarkable recovery.
King’s books are an impressive achievement and contribution to health workers and people living in the poorest regions of the world. He made surgical and trauma knowledge practical and accessible to practitioners on the frontlines of care and he was an inspiration to our own work at Global Health Media Project – creating teaching videos in and for low-resource settings.
His two volumes on Primary Surgery (trauma and non-trauma) have been updated and can be downloaded free-of-charge from the Global Help website: https://global-help.org/category/surgery/
My sincere condolences to Dr. King's family and to all who knew and loved him.
Kindest regards,
Deb
Deborah Van Dyke, Director
Tel/WhatsApp: +1.802.595.9606
HIFA profile: Deborah Van Dyke is the Founder and Director of Global Health Media Project, an organization producing videos that bring to life critical health care information for providers and populations in low-resource settings. She is a clinician filmmaker, bringing to this work more than 30 years in family practice, an MPH from Harvard and international field experience, mostly with MSF/Doctors Without Borders. Deb is the designer and builder of the teaching videos during all phases of GHM projects. deb AT globalhealthmedia.org
