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I do not like, and have never participated in, programs in which outside physicians come in with a team to cure lucky cataract patients in a low-resource country without engaging the local physicians.
This has been described as a “mission” model. To be clear, these interventions do transform many lives in places where no other care is available, but some have argued that these short-term outreaches have little long-term effect on overall blindness in a country. Perhaps, but they do