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Learning to cut on virtual cadavers

Associated Press

New systems allow med students to perform surgery with realistic feel on computer simulations ...Read the full article

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  1. Roop Misir from Toronto, Canada writes: No problem here. High school biology/science students already do virtual dissection of earthworms (creepy crawlies), fish (ranky stinky) frogs (ribbit kermit) and pigs (dirty and not too holee cow). So isn't the dissection of cadavers next? But wait, what will surgeons do when it comes to say heart patients awaiting surgery? ... Will they treat them with antibiotics and medications? The way to the future, eh?

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