A video is worth a thousand fliers

Vedran tells me that people from the Oncology Institute in Belgrade, who usually give women little brochures that describe breast self-exam in words, are now using - and loving - the two videos (originally from here) he has embedded into his Gynecology aggregator. Another win for Open Access.

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