Talk:Open Source Medicine

Telesurgery definitely deserves a mention here. Imagine you could be operated on by a specialist surgeon anywhere in the world. You just go into an operating theater with robots and a high-resolution camera and the surgeon operates the robots remotely. This is fully mature technology. Open collaboration makes this possible, as you have access to all the world's surgeons.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1681689/

Telesurgery, but also fully robotic surgery won't be far behind.

Tried to upload 800px version of this image, but was getting timeouts...
Uploaded it: http://www.adciv.org/Image:DaVinci-Robot.jpg That is an amazing picture.

Interesting talk on robotic surgery: http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future.html

These robots could be scaled down to the micro or nano level and controlled wirelessly from the outside. As Feynman said, "it would be interesting in surgery if you could swallow the surgeon"