Innovation - Innovations in Rural Surgery

Most of us, if asked to name some of the great advances in modern medicine and surgery, may probably list some. Nobel laureates and the discoveries or inventions closely linked with their names, for example, Roentgen with X-Ray, Koch with Tubercle bacilli, Fleming with Penicillin. Enders with Polio virus, Banting with insulin etc. Yet once in a while an event that is not eligible for a Nobel prize has had just as important an impact on medical advance, as one that has won an award. Many highly useful research works have been successfully conducted in small laboratories that did not have research facilities or finances at their disposal. Still their works were no less important than those, which were recognized in the world of science and technology. Many of us get different ideas now and then but very few follow them up seriously. Every idea is worth serious consideration, howsoever small and bizarre it may be. As Huxley puts it "method of scientific investigations is nothing more than the expression of the necessary mode of working of human mind:. "Every man ought to try to do some good bit of original work," said Paget.