On Saturday, 4 October 2014 at 11:39:24 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
The thing is, the privilege to make that kind of business
decision is wholly dependent on the fact that there are no
meaningful safety issues involved.
Surgeons can do remote surgery using VR equipment. There are
obvious dangerous technical factors there, but you have to weigh
that up to getting an emergency operation done by the most
exerienced surgeon in the country. So it is a probabilistic
calculation. From an absolute safety point of view, you should
not do that. The comm link might fail and that could be serious.
It is a system that might create extra complications. From a
probabilistic point of view it might lead to the highest survial
rate and make local surgeons better, so it might be worth the
risk when you amortize risk over N operations.
