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Live surgery causes greater risk to the patient, and as a consequence, the practice should be discontinued at meetings.
Surgeons undertaking live surgery will often be in an unfamiliar environment, in a theater they never have operated in before, using equipment they may not be used to, performing a procedure on a patient they may not have met. Inevitably, they will be under a lot of stress, with an earphone in their ear, (Read more...)