this cloud based platform now allows trainee surgeons to scrub in virtually, from home, on the bus or, in this case, on the street. could you walk me through what s going on? speaks indistnctly. sometimes it is quite hard to either get the time to get into theatre, or it can be quite busy. so being able to watch things in my own time or remotely is really helpful, it also helps getting more 1 to 1 interaction with the consultants so i can speak to them via the proximie app. roisin is watching a feed coming from an operating room at st thomas s hospital in central london where a patient is undergoing robot assisted surgery to remove a section of their colon that s been affected by cancer. more than 2,000 surgeries have now been conducted at the hospital using the platform, which has been developed by a company called proximie.
roisin is watching a feed coming from an operating room at st thomas s hospital in central london where a patient is undergoing robot assisted surgery to remove a section of their colon that s been affected by cancer. more than 2,000 surgeries have now been conducted at the hospital using the platform, which has been developed by a company called proximie. there are four cameras in this operating room. two are giving an overview of the entire procedure from different angles. vicki is wearing the third on her headset, and the fourth is on one of the robot arms, which is currently being used to see inside the patient. all four of these streams are recorded and stored in an online library that other surgeons and trainees around the world can access. even today s surgeon, who is extremely experienced, has found it useful. for us, it has got a couple of uses. when i was starting on the robot, it means we can look back at our own videos
them wrong so far. how do we fix it? how do we fix it. when we talk to recruiters we are pretty particular. if you re not going to show us a diverse candidate list, gender and ethnicity, we are not going to work with you. you really have to instil the minimum requirements. you want to make sure you re making a concerted effort to hire within those minority groups. back at st thomas s hospital, the operation is nearly over. this is where we re at with surgery, where the surgeon can pilot a robot which actually is in the patient. it s properly humbling what s going on here, when you think about it. the surgeon over there is piloting a robot over there that is removing someone s cancer. 0k, time for a look at this week s tech news now.
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disrupt surgery. i remember people telling me when i went to a fundraiser early on, someone told me, this problem is too big for a female surgeon to fix , quite blatantly. and so, i am glad we are hopefully being able to prove them wrong so far. how do we fix it? how do we fix it. when we talk to recruiters we are pretty particular. if you re not going to show us a diverse candidate list, gender and ethnicity, we are not going to work with you. you really have to instil the minimum requirements. you want to make sure you re making a concerted effort to hire within those minority groups. back at st thomas s hospital, the operation is nearly over. this is where we re at with surgery, where the surgeon can pilot a robot which actually is in the patient. it s properly humbling what s going on here, when you think about it. the surgeon over there is piloting a robot over there that is removing