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Bangkok Post
Bangkok Post
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UNBELIEVABLE: Remote surgery successful - The Untold Story

A doctor at Nopparat Rajathanee Hospital in Bangkok performs robotic telesurgery on a prostate cancer patient in Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital, more than 250 kilometres away, in Thailand's first procedure of its kind. (Photo courtesy of DMS)

Thailand has performed its first remote robotic surgery for prostate cancer, with a surgical team in Bangkok operating on a patient about 250 kilometres away in Nakhon Ratchasima.

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