Sharing area-specific information via an internet forum benefits rural clinicians: a lesson learned from a case with decompression sickness a remote island

Yuki Tateno

qualifications: MD

contribution: original concept, managed the patient, wrote the first draft

position: head

I am a docter of engaging in the remote place(island).

Toshihide Sato

qualifications: MD

contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts

position: head

Japan

Prof Shigeki Matsubara

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts

position: Professor

Since 2002, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Vice President of Center for Perinatal Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan. I have been working as an obstetrician for 3 decades and hitherto wrote 105 first author English peer-reviewed papers. The Chief of Clinical Research Support Team (CRST)-Jichi, which helps remote physicians to write scientific papers. I used to be a remote rural general physician myself.