Press of Atlantic City - Health & Fitness

E-mail links sick in poor countries with specialists around the world

By KEVIN SULLIVAN The Washington Post

Published: Dec 01, 2008

WINGHAM, England - Geese honked happily outside as Pat Swinfen sat in the study of her 16th-century farmhouse, cozy and warm amid thick Oriental carpets and a glowing wood fire.

Pure English countryside idyll - except for the critically ill pregnant woman in Iraq desperately in need of a neurologist.

Swinfen, a retired nurse in her early 70s, sat at her computer and tapped out an e-mail, trying to connect doctors in Basra working on the woman, who had suffered a brain hemorrhage, with a renowned neurologist from Northern Ireland trekking in Nepal.

She soon had an e-mail response from the neurologist, who told Swinfen to forward details of the case. More

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