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Surgery of the future

Surgery of the future
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  • Surgery of the future
  • Duration: 04:26
  • Surgery has changed due to different techniques of seeing inside the body, moving from simple X-rays to magnetic resonance imaging machines and minature cameras. This has enabled surgery to be less intrusive with quicker recovery times. It turns to look at the future and believes there will be a 'step back' to home-based treatment, but at what cost?
  • Subject:

    History

       Topic:

    Medicine Through Time

  • Keywords: x-ray, magnetic resonance machines, MRI, surgery, hospitals, surgeon, key hole surgery, research and development, treatment, future
Ideas for use in class
  • As a way to relate a medicine through time study to the future. Students could be asked to look at the trends and developments over the last 2,000 years and tasked with using past 'evidence' to make hypotheses about medicine of the future.
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  • Clip language : English
  • Aspect ratio : 4x3
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