How Social Media Is Transforming Medical Care In The Developing World

When a doctor in the Dominican Republic needed to learn how to treat burn patients, she turned to Facebook.

As a physiatrist in a pediatric burn unit in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Dr. Carolina Camilo was frustrated. While she was trained in treating damage to nerves and muscles, and the other staffers in her office were qualified to perform surgery and give anesthesia, there was no one who knew how to prevent her young patients from scarring and losing the use of their burned limbs.

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