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Article: Surgical research in sub-Saharan Africa: a role for TeleHealth? 26th D. J. du Plessis Lecture, delivered at the 35th Annual Conference of the Surgical Research Society of Southern Africa, Bloemfontein, June 2007.(D.J. du Plessis Lecture)(Conference news)
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- South African Journal of Surgery
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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As a non-surgeon I feel especially honoured to have been afforded the privilege of presenting this, the 26th annual D. J. du Plessis Lecture of the Surgical Research Society of Southern Africa. I thank Professor Thompson and his organising committee for the invitation.
We are here to remember and honour the late Professor D. J. du Plessis. He was a man of many parts: a soldier, a surgeon, a researcher, and an academic leader. Born in Paarl in 1916, he entered medical school at the University of Cape Town in 1935. At the outbreak of World War II he enlisted and joined the South African Medical Corps, graduating in 1941. After the war he commenced surgical training ...