From:	Geoff Skellams <geoff.skellams@*********.COM.AU>
Subject:	Surgeons as Riggers?
Date:	Tue, 5 May 1998 13:10:12 +1000

I just heard a report on the radio that in an Australian first, a
surgeon has used a robot to perform surgery by remote control. I didn't
catch the whole story, but I think the main surgeon was at a remote site
and there was a human surgeon in the operating theatre in case there was
a problem with the robots.
This brought me back to an idea I had the other day on the bus
on the way to work. In 205X, could some surgeons be very specialised
forms of riggers? Given that at the moment, there is a lot of surgery
being done with laproscopes (I had my gall bladder out by laproscope in
'93) and the story relayed above, could a surgeon benefit from a VCR
which is hooked to the miniature tools used in surgery?

just another thought for a wet afternoon in Canberra

Geoff
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