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Ethics in delivering orthopedic care in developing countries involves an evaluation of risks that take in factors not normally considered in high-income country settings.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Alameda County Medical Center, 1411 E31st St., Oakland, CA, 94602, USA

    Michael Krosin MD

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Richard A. Gosselin

  2. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    David A. Spiegel

  3. Columbus, Montana, USA

    Michelle Foltz

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Krosin, M. (2014). Ethics. In: Gosselin, R., Spiegel, D., Foltz, M. (eds) Global Orthopedics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1578-7_8

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