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Mending Hearts Via Satellite

Posted by timothy on from the hi-it's-the-future-you're-late dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Read how a cardiac surgeon and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are engaged in a 15-month-old experiment in telemedicine, using computer software and satellite hook-ups to make available their specialist services to general practitioners treating heart patients in other parts of India."

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  1. Scared by Cokelee · · Score: 2, Funny

    This idea frightens me. I'd like for the doctor to be there to chastise me for years of bad eating habits --wouldn't you?

  2. ./ it!!! by moosesocks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Somehow, tying the slashdot effect into medicine over the internet seems like a bad idea....

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