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Gall Bladder Removed In France By Doctor In New York

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. I heard... by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 4, Funny

    that the surgeon yelled out "First Incision!"

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  2. Ouch by SilentChris · · 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 · · 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.

  3. Telecommuters by spudnic · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  4. Re:Tumor != Gall Bladder by fobbman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Overheard in the surgeon's office in New York:

    Doctor: Damn, I was supposed to remove a tumor?

  5. medical transcript... by turbine216 · · 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)

  6. Speech recognition by ph117 · · 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."
  7. Shouldn't that be a... by szcx · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... Gaul bladder?

  8. Re:Tumor != Gall Bladder by realdpk · · 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*...