'Remote' surgery technology will allow doctors to operate without ever meeting patients

A surgeon in Florida operated remotely on a human cadaver in Scotland last month in what is being called a medical "game changer."

A remote-controlled robot operated by surgeons in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland was used to remove a blood clot from a human body that had been donated to medical science in a university facility at a different location in the city, according to the New York Post.

Several hours later and over 4,000 miles away, Dr. Ricardo Hanel, a neurosurgeon in Jacksonville, FL, performed the same procedure on the same body, becoming the first transatlantic surgery, according to BBC News.  Hanel said, “Tele neurointervention will allow us to decrease the gap and further our reach to provide one of the most impactful procedures in humankind - the thrombectomy - to more people.”