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Laser Surgery Goes Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the put-your-eye-in-the-disk-tray dept.

Ignat writes "Scientists in Australia successfully performed a laser surgery in a Southern California laboratory via the Internet. RoboLase, the new technology used showed that realtime surgeries can be performed from distant locations. Scientists from UC Irvine, UC San Diego and the University of Queensland used RoboLase to produce surgical holes in a distinct pattern of less than one micron in diameter (1/1000th of a millimeter) in single cells."

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  1. Hidden racism by tubacolossus · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Calls like these may seem funny, but users like penguinix hide their version of racism in a veil of humour. The fact is, Indian doctors can be just as capable as doctors from the US, or other Western nations. The same goes for the IT industry.

    People who are against outsourcing are just trying to peddle their vision of cultural superiority. It's a modern version of "allegiance to the tribe". You'd think such primitive thought would have died out, especially on a tech site like this. But the users of /. continue to astound me.

    1. Re:Hidden racism by Virak · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      The fact is, Indian doctors can be just as capable as doctors from the US, or other Western nations. The same goes for the IT industry.

      Yes, they can be, but SURPRISE! Most of them aren't.