Abstract :
As a surgeon performed a critical operation recently, a group of reporters, seated in a lounge two floors above the operating floor, watched the operation. An overall view of the room was provided on one television screen but this was not a typical closed-circuit TV demonstration. Two other large screen monitors showed what the surgeon himself saw through the operation microscope as he performed delicate surgery inside the patient´s middle ear. (The operation is known as a stapedectomy.) As he worked, he explained every move, answering questions through a two-way microphone hookup, just as he might to a class of doctors.
