The Ultimate Remote Control

摘要

Douglas Boyd, a heart surgeon at London Health Science Centre in Ontario, is doing amazing things in the OR these days. Sitting across the room from the operating table, Boyd is using a surgical robot to perform bypass operations on patients without opening their chests (save for five tiny incisions), while their hearts continue beating. He's done 68 such procedures since the fall of 1999, with no deaths and far fewer post-op complications than he encounters in conventional operations.