Mark Shrime
About Mark Shrime
Mark Shrime, MD MPH, is a head and neck surgical oncologist in Boston, who has done surgical work and training in Liberia, Benin, Togo, and Sierra Leone. He is currently pursuing a PhD in health policy at the Harvard University Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, with a concentration in decision analysis, and a focus on surgical infrastructure in post-conflict settings.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Academic
- Physician
Organization
- Harvard University
- Mercy Ships
Language(s)
- English
- French
- Spanish
Recent Contributions
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Mark Shrime replied to "Surgical Implementation Protocol from BMJ Open" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
This is a great paper, and I really look forward to the hearing the results that you'll be getting in the next couple of years. Nadine brings up some excellent points, which can honestly be expanded to the majority of Box 2--what counts as appropriate IV placement? Why is a post-operative sponge count in particular more important than other factors involved in the safety of surgery? Specifically, with respect to the question of appropriate perioperative ...
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Mark Shrime replied to "BWH Global Health Case Series" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
In general, these have not been videotaped; as the conferences increase in size, though, this may be something we can consider if there is interest in this.
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Mark Shrime replied to "Moving Beyond Doctors" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
I don't know that a strong rebuttal on either side is actually warranted. There are dangers (and relatively obvious ones) inherent in task shifting, but there are also significant dangers (and equally obvious ones) in maintaining the status quo and insisting on surgery only being performed by fully trained physicians. It goes without saying that surgical task shifting risks an overstepping of bounds, but insisting that the sorts of diseases which Nabeel has already mentioned ...
Recent Recommendations
- None at this time.