TELEMENTORING
for its people. To have been able to play a part in helping to make this happen has been incredibly humbling, and without doubt one of the greatest achievements of my life.
An adventure in Africa
I recently wrote a book about the link project – The Link: An Adventure in Africa from the Inside Out, because I wanted to take the story beyond the surgery, to talk about the people and the country that we all came to respect and love during our time there. Despite living in often desperate circumstances, everyone we worked with supported our project and did everything they could to help us. We met many people who remain friends to this day, who, with pride and dignity, shared with us a side to Tanzania that is inaccessible to the average tourist. A tour guide with a thousand tales to tell, a patient who is not all that he seems, and a doctor with a plan to bottle the sun, were just some of the characters we met along the way.
My career has been built around improving patient care and outcomes. I may deal with cables and connections and screwdrivers, but for me it’s all
Colin Dobbyne has recently written a book about his experiences.
about the person on the operating table. Some people said the link could not, or perhaps even should not, be done. Unbelievably, one consultant surgeon told me it was ‘quite fanciful to think that such advanced techniques of surgery could be imparted or entrusted to the dubiously trained staff in Africa with the basic services available’. He added: “I suspect you will do more harm than good.” The project at KCMC shows what can be achieved when the rule book is thrown out of the window; with no received wisdom or standard processes holding you back, and an absolute enthusiasm to embrace innovation, new products and solutions flourish and advance what can be achieved. I want to bring this growth mindset to the rich countries, too – if we are eager to adapt new techniques and gather metrics to support or disprove surgical decisions, we can improve patient outcomes. Patients don’t need to die from preventable medical errors if we seize the opportunity to learn from our mistakes. For me, the link was the start – what comes next will be even more astonishing, and I am incredibly excited to be part of it.
Colin Dobbyne
Colin Dobbyne is CEO of Cambridge- based product development consultancy, Big Blue Solutions, which specialises in ‘disruptive innovation to drive growth’. A former technical and commercial director, and then International executive director: OR1 Development, at Karl Storz, he also founded and ran OR Networks, the company that first established the multi-award-winning telementoring link-up between Hexham General Hospital and the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre.
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