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Canadian Surgeons Perform Telerobotic Surgery

AndroidCat writes "While the equipment used isn't new, this operation was different because one of surgeons was 400km away. Dr. Mehran Anvari in Hamilton Ontario tele-operated instruments in North Bay General Hospital, supervised by Dr. Craig McKinley on site. The link was over a high priority routed Bell Canada connection. The patient, Ms. Fortier is doing quite well. Don't try this from home with a dialup connection."

19 of 211 comments (clear)

  1. Yes but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dialup is good enough for FIRST POST!

    1. Re:Yes but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      how can you FAIL IT so much?
      because you become FAILURE HAHA

  2. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is an FP?

    I sure hope so. It would be awesome.

    1. Re:FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, it's not.

      But you're a First Dickhead!

  3. RPN Example by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    e to the power of a third

    3 1/x exp

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  4. wilco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    war....uh....what is it good for... absolutely... nothing. fuck you bush.

    1. Re:wilco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Well you're a fucking hero aren't you.

      I'm sure he heard that. Yea. Good try, hippy.

  5. Mardi gras pics/movies anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm talking about the naughty stuff here. Please post links to pictures and movies in this thread. Thanks.

  6. excpet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...civil war, revolution that is. Where WE THE PEOPLE remove the tyrannical regime which has stolen power.

  7. YOU FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how can you FAIL IT so much?
    because you become FAILURE

  8. We couldn't if we wanted by oever · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't try this from home with a dialup connection.

    Sir, you overestimate the size of the average slashdot reader's house.

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  9. Lazy? by djupedal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    More like he'd been slammed for malpractice at some point in the past, and they wouldn't let him in the country...he had to dail ld

    Don't worry about it happening on a regular basis tho...by the time tele-surgery gains momentum, it will be fully robotic and 99% non-invasive.

  10. Confidential by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are not supposed to publish the patient's name.

    Medical treatment is confidential, even over Internet links

  11. OMFG yu0 r teh FUNNIE!!!1!!1!one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How did you ever manage to come up with such a bitingly insightful analysis of all the problems inherent in Microsoft(TM) Windows® operating systems? Best yet, you managed to do it in just a single sentence! I mean, most people would have been content to make the unbelievably obvious statement you made in the first three sentences, then sit back and watch the karma roll in. You, though, you took it to the next level and fired off a lame-ass joke at Bill Gates' expense.

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    Cumdumpster.

    1. Re:OMFG yu0 r teh FUNNIE!!!1!!1!one by Evil+Adrian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      LOL

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  12. WHOOPS! by Evil+Adrian · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My bad, folks, my bad. Looks like I got the URL wrong... or maybe they changed it. Anyways:

    http://www.fu-fme.com/

    Enjoy!!!

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    evil adrian
  13. Re:I had this done by tommten · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    getting drugged on the bar and waking up with a boob job doesn't count :p

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  14. Re:hmm performance Tsarkon reports bootlicking fag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder if you read the story. I Wonder if you even know what the fuck you are talking about.

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  15. Re:hmm performance Tsarkon Reports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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