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Bladder exstrophy care in China today

Dr. Zhou Huixia is the first to acknowledge that when it comes to the treatment of bladder exstrophy, China's medical system has room for improvement. Larger centers like Beijing and Shanghai are well-equipped to treat the condition, but in the less-developed autonomous regions, like Tibet and the far-west province of Xinjiang, children born with bladder exstrophy have far less access to necessary medical care. Unfortunately, it is these autonomous regions that see the country's highest concentration of children born with bladder exstrophy.

When asked about the reason for China's uneven distribution of bladder exstrophy...

Doctors are often so caught up in the day-to-day operations of being a doctor -- which includes, of course, caring for patients -- that they don't think to take the time to market their actual ophthalmology practice. And, in today's digital age, that marketing includes a plan for optimizing a website and performing a wide variety of digital marketing services for yourself and for your practice. In this blog post, then, we're going to discuss the various ways that you, as an ophthalmologist, will be able to market your business quickly and effectively using some of the best known digital...

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