Doctors from the US and UK have performed the world’s first-ever remote-controlled surgery — in what has been hailed as a medical “game changer.”
Surgeons at a hospital in Dundee, Scotland, used a robot to remove a blood clot in a human cadaver, which was located at a university facility across the city.
Hours later — and over 4,000 miles away in Jacksonville, Florida — Dr Ricardo Hanel then used the groundbreaking technology to operate on the same body.
Weikoko on
Don’t give the insurance and investors the ideas that they can hire cheap doctors from overseas.
arkencode on
Didn’t I hear about the first ever remote surgery before?
SecondaryPenetrator on
This seems to happen weekly that’s the amazing part I feel.
Thanks_Ollie on
It’s all fun and games until you get a buffer overflow and accidentally decapitate the patient
-H-U-H- on
Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I’d definitely opt the fuck out of that
Fract_L on
Would be fun if true. However, this isn’t a first. The US was not first to the game even if it’s the first time they did it.
eatmynet on
This is the solution to everybody losing health insurance? Allow a doctor from India or China to conduct surgery on you?
WhoAteMySoup on
Pretty sure that the first time a remote surgery was done was in 2001, when a surgeon from New York used a da Vinci robot to operate on a patient in France.
HomoColossusHumbled on
But think of the loss of office culture and the missed opportunities for collaboration!
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Doctors from the US and UK have performed the world’s first-ever remote-controlled surgery — in what has been hailed as a medical “game changer.”
Surgeons at a hospital in Dundee, Scotland, used a robot to remove a blood clot in a human cadaver, which was located at a university facility across the city.
Hours later — and over 4,000 miles away in Jacksonville, Florida — Dr Ricardo Hanel then used the groundbreaking technology to operate on the same body.
Don’t give the insurance and investors the ideas that they can hire cheap doctors from overseas.
Didn’t I hear about the first ever remote surgery before?
This seems to happen weekly that’s the amazing part I feel.
It’s all fun and games until you get a buffer overflow and accidentally decapitate the patient
Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I’d definitely opt the fuck out of that
Would be fun if true. However, this isn’t a first. The US was not first to the game even if it’s the first time they did it.
This is the solution to everybody losing health insurance? Allow a doctor from India or China to conduct surgery on you?
Pretty sure that the first time a remote surgery was done was in 2001, when a surgeon from New York used a da Vinci robot to operate on a patient in France.
But think of the loss of office culture and the missed opportunities for collaboration!