Post‐operative pulmonary complications

Surgical diseases of immigrants

“…Pulmonary embolism occurred only twice in twenty-thousand operations at University College Hospital of the West Indies. (Keating and Myles, 1957) In conclusion, I think there is some danger of medically "over-segregating" the Immigrant who may tend to be treated as a being apart, albeit with some really "interesting" disease. The disease pattern from the surgical point of view is not outstandingly different from that seen every day amongst "the native population" of the United Kingdom but it may have served a useful purpose to point out some of the surgically significant tropical diseases, and to dwell briefly on the differing pattern of every day surgical conditions when seen amongst the various races who make up our steadily increasing immigrant population.…”