I recently came across this random video on reddit. Apparently the demonstration was done to promote the potential benefits of ‘telemedicine’—making remote surgeries possible, and the low latency (i.e., little to no signal delay) of 5G technology. – Twisted Sifter.
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What was the bananas’ name, there are lots of them in California….
Isn’t all elective banana surgery supposed to be on hold?
I’ll pass, they’re likely diversity hires for that gig.
Was it a vasectomy? Oh, wrong kind of banana.
…imagine the field day a hacker would have with THAT version of Surgeon Simulator…
…and it worked perfectly every time because phone networks NEVER go down…/s
That’s essentially what laparoscopic surgery is. The key here is the distance between the patient and the surgeon performing the procedure, and the internet. Do you trust the connection??
For me, bananas used to have appeal but something is lacking with this surgery.
@Cynic ~ if you’re going through your ‘banana’ for a vasectomy (like they yelled out in ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles) …
“You’re going the wrong way!”
😂🤣
If the connection is hacked, what do you get?
Fruit salad?
btw, had a heart ablation basically the same way. I was on a table. the nurse poked a hole in my leg vein. shove a camera & a zapper in … the doc, sitting across the room, in front of a computer screen, guided the apparatus up into my heart & zapped an extra heart-beat trigger I had in me. walked out of the hospital the same day.
When we were in Hawai’i, my husband was the commander of Tripler Army Medical Center. This was in the late 90s and they were doing telemedicine. Tripler was responsible for the medical care of numerous islands west of us. They were directing surgeries back then and they were on people not bananas and they were successful.
In related news Commiela Harris remotely sucked a California banana from the White House…
Whose banana was it?
I’ve hoid of ED, but Bananna Dysfunction????
Really?
Did the banana suffer from Peyronie’s disease?
Dairy Queen will now implement a remote Work From Home mandate.
Imagine a checkup from your Proctologist in the comfort of your dining room table.
(while the family is watching TV in the next room)
Kamala Harris can now give blowjobs from home anywhere in the world
I was sure this video would have been made by either, The Food Surgeon, or, You Suck at Cooking.
Alas, there is an actual banana surgeon in London who can remotely remove brown spots from ripe bananas!
I applaud as long as you keep this shit on bananas.
I’ve lived in both these worlds, remote automation and patient care.
If you’re truly remoting, you are 100% dependent on your inputs and outputs, and you have two dimensional tunnel vision to just whatever the camera sees and the inputs show, and you ONLY get the inputs you pick beforehand. You are also taking it on faith that your outputs are responding as designed, and that the situation at hand is EXACTLY what you anticipate, no more and no less.
This isn’t always the case.
And with people, you need inputs difficult to assess remotely, like pallor or turgor or quality of pulses or breath sounds, things like that. Yes, you can ask other people in the room, but THEY are not the highly trained person YOU are.
Are you going to fully trust OTHER people to make sure YOUR job isn’t coming off the rails?
REALLY trust them?
…ok, good luck with that, but if I’m your patient, I’m paying for YOUR hands and eyes and mind, NOT some flunky’s…
5G? ChiCom created, sold, and operated spyware 5G? Thanks, but no thanks.
Figured from the title this would be yet another RFB removal. Can’t say I’m disappointed.
…now that this thread is dead on Page 2, I can think to speak to the BIGGEST problem with all the ‘telemedicine’ approaches.
It allows the doctor to forget you’re a human being.
Dehumanization is ALREADY a big problem in medicine. Partly its a necessary mental defense against becoming too emotionally involved in your patients as people to be able to function, because some will be tragic and some will die, but when it goes too far and you think of people as interchangeable and replaceable as a mechanic might a car, you no longer go that extra mile you might otherwise so someone’s grandpa might have another Christmas with the fam.
And if you dehumanuze WAY too far, that’s where you get a Mengele or a Fauci.
…remote robosurgery takes ALL the human out of it. At that point, your surgeon is just a mechanic punching a clock. He wants you to live for his own reputation, sure, but he doesn’t have to deal with your family if you don’t, doesn’t see your body take its last breaths, doesn’t have to regard you as a life or a soul, just a game to be played before going on to the next one.
And that’s not good for you OR him.
Here’s an example ofa doctor who’s lost touch with his humanity.
https://iotwreport.com/bedside-manners-doctor-tells-patient-he-is-terminal-through-video-robot/
It’s not a big deal, you might say. He did his job, you might say.
And technically, you’d be correct.
…but if you were this person or his family, would YOU feel he was working his hardest and doing his best?
I certainly wouldn’t…
..patients are NOT defective machines.
They are people.
…given the state of modern medicine, I’d say doctors need no additional excuses to forget that…