Gall Bladder Removed In France By Doctor In New York

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Gall Bladder Removed In France By Doctor In New York

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 19, 2001 @04:56AM from the wait-till-it-hits-dentistry dept.

cybaea writes: "In this article, the BBC reports on the first successful major telesurgical operation. Doctors in the United States removed a gall bladder from a patient in eastern France by remotely operating a surgical robot arm." Note that this was using a "high speed optical link," not competing with email, viruses, or other things being sent on the Internet. Update: 09/19 17:05 PM GMT by T : Uh, that's "gall bladder," not "tumor." From this distance they look the same to me.

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Re:Tumor != Gall Bladder by Garc · 2001-09-19 05:01 · Score: 1, Funny

In recent news, Slashdot editors are the first to discover that gall bladders are actually tumors. Not only are they world class spellers, but also medical researchers.

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I heard... by Rude+Turnip · 2001-09-19 05:01 · Score: 4, Funny

that the surgeon yelled out "First Incision!"

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Ouch by SilentChris · 2001-09-19 05:02 · Score: 3, Funny

"by remotely operating a surgical robot arm"
Boy, a buffer overflow during that would be a bitch.
1. Re:Ouch by fobbman · 2001-09-19 05:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  A tragedy was narrowly averted when the surgeon was in the middle of an intricate micro-stitching and a casino pop-up ad obstructed his view. Thank goodness a forward-thinking assisting had their hand on the mouse ready to "X" it outta there.
Telecommuters by spudnic · 2001-09-19 05:02 · Score: 2, Funny

I can just hear all the surgeons begging their bosses to let them telecommute from home now.

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Re:Tumor != Gall Bladder by Anonymous Coward · 2001-09-19 05:06 · Score: 0, Funny

&ltAustrian accent&gtIt's not a tumor!&lt/Austrian accent&gt
Re:Tumor != Gall Bladder by fobbman · 2001-09-19 05:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Overheard in the surgeon's office in New York:

Doctor: Damn, I was supposed to remove a tumor?
medical transcript... by turbine216 · 2001-09-19 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny

here's the just-released transcription of the communciations between the surgeon and the patient:

DOCTOR: how r j00 feeling?

PATIENT: ok

DOCTOR: duz this hurt?

PATIENT: ouch

DOCTOR: roflmao

PATIENT: :(

(PATIENT signed off at 08:36 AM EST)

DOCTOR: hello?

DOCTOR: r u there?

DOCTOR: kewl
(DOCTOR signed off at 08:38 AM EST)
Speech recognition by ph117 · 2001-09-19 06:16 · Score: 2, Funny
The robot responds to verbal commands like ``move up'' or ''move down''

I sure hope it's more accurate than some of the speech recognition tools I've used.
- Doctor: "Move up"
- Robot: "COMMAND NOT RECOGNISED"
- Doctor: (clears throat) "Moooovvvveee up"
- Robot: "COMMAND NOT RECOGNISED"
- Doctor: "Moof up"
- Robot: "COMMAND RECOGNISED: REMOVING GENITALS"
- Doctor: "Oh crap."
Shouldn't that be a... by szcx · 2001-09-19 06:23 · Score: 3, Funny

... Gaul bladder?
Re:Tumor != Gall Bladder by realdpk · 2001-09-19 07:06 · Score: 3, Funny

The procedure could make it possible for a surgeon to perform an operation on a patient anywhere in the world.

and here we are worrying about whether or not the govt will be able to open our *emails*...