Surgeons Here, Patient There Surgeons
Surgeons in New York have used a remote-controlled robot to operate on a patient in France in what is believed to be the first surgery of its kind. The surgical team removed the gall bladder of a 68-year-old woman at the European Institute for TeleSurgery in Strasbourg, over 4,000 miles away. "For surgeons, it's a defining moment. We've never been able to operate remotely like this," said Michel Gagner, the chief of laparoscopic surgery at Mount Sinai and one of the participating doctors. "It's going to take some time to realize the impact of this."
After hundreds of years of killing people at a distance, we've finally figured out how to heal them from afar.