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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...novice doctor 1,000 km or more away. "This is a way of putting someone with more experience into the operating room," says Gardiner. A surgeon could even be in several places at once, watching a bank of monitors showing operations all over the world and being a "telementor" for the less-experienced surgeons. "When a pilot wants to learn how to fly a 747, he doesn't just climb into the cockpit and watch the other pilot and eventually take control," says Bill Colman, assistant professor of sports medicine at the University of California in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctor's Little Helper | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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