surgeon interface facing the patient side for a minimally invasive teleoperated surgical instrument. The present invention relates to the patient-side surgeon interface that provides greater capabilities for using a minimally invasive teleoperated surgical system. The patient-side surgeon interface has components within the sterile surgical field of surgery. The components allow the surgeon to control the teleoperated slave surgical instruments from within the sterile surgical field. The patient-side surgical interface allows the surgeon to be in the sterile surgical field adjacent to the patient undergoing surgery. controlling minimally invasive slave surgical instruments from within the sterile field allows for minimally invasive surgery combined with direct visualization by the surgeon. Proximity to the patient allows the surgeon to control a teleoperated slave surgical instrument coupled with the control of manually controlled instruments such as a laparoscopic instrument. Also, the surgeon, from within the sterile surgical field, can use the patient-facing surgeon interface to control at least one visual proxy on another surgeon's supervision.
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