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Immediately thereafter, if not simultaneously, he must perform a radical operation to remove the already advanced cancer on the body of Harvard--not with a scalpel, but with an ax. Only then will the entire Harvard family, loyal as it has been, will be able to help him clean the Harvard house instead of having it done by an outsider...
MEDICAL ROBOTS HAVE BEEN USED TO LOCATE hard-to-find tumors and guide a surgeon's scalpel but have never actually performed surgery on people -- at least not in the U.S. Now that line has been crossed. At Sacramento's Sutter General Hospital, a 90-kg (200 lbs.) machine called Robodoc has operated on its first human patient: a 64-year-old man with...
...Computer graphics," says ILM animator Mark Dippe, "has become an essential design and communication tool. Entertainment is only a small part of it." Hospitals use realistic three-dimensional computer animation to walk doctors through their next operation before they ever pick up a scalpel. The FBI can simulate what a missing child would look like years after a disappearance...
...judge but a doctor who must stand over the accused, scalpel in hand. The American Medical Association opposes the use of medical procedures as a part of criminal penalties. "Physicians have no business acting as agents of the state to punish people," says Dr. George Annas, a professor of health law at Boston University medical school. "This includes sterilization, any surgical procedure or ((implanting)) Norplant." In the Butler case so far, one doctor has already withdrawn his agreement to perform the castration...
This nearly bloodless procedure, which Sugarbaker began performing just nine months ago, is one of the most recent applications of a new approach to surgery that is rapidly displacing the dreaded knife and scalpel. "We are witnessing the greatest surgical revolution in the past 50 years," exclaims Dr. William Schuessler, a urological surgeon from San Antonio. The instrument sparking such enthusiasm is variously known as a laparoscope (when used in the abdomen), an arthroscope (when applied to the joints), a thoracoscope (when the chest is involved) and an angioscope (when the target lies inside blood vessel walls). But apart from...