Doctors have successfully operated on a pig – from 9,300 km (5,780 miles) away. Using a video game controller, surgeons in Switzerland successfully performed an endoscopy on a pig in Hong Kong, paving the way for remote procedures in humans in areas where local expertise isn’t available.
  • thefartographer@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Scientists have hailed the decision to remotely augment the swine with breast implants as being “as historic of a leap forward in technology as it is a remarkably questionable abuse of modern medicine.”

    To the researchers’ credit, the pig later received a promotion and unexpected bonus even though the sleazy district manager recently insisted that there “weren’t enough funds for raises this year.”

    ^\s in case it needs to be said^