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 Alan Karchmer / Esto, University of Cincinnati, Center for Student Life, Locaton: Cincinnati OH, Architect: Moore Ruble Yudell.
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 Peter Menzel / ASA / ASA, Ger.rs.151.xs Surgeon Anno Diegeler completes a cardiac surgery using traditional methods, after the decision is made to switch from the use of a minimally invasive robotic technique at the Herzzentrum Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany. Visiting doctors watch surgeon Volkmar Falk perform a coronary artery bypass graft on a patient lying in the adjoining room, using a tele-manipulated surgical system (called a robotic system by some) designed by Intuitive Surgical Corporation of Mountainview, California, at the Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany. The assistant surgeon has incised small holes into the patients chest wall through which the instruments-attached to sterile plastic covered manipulating arms-will pass and be tele-manipulated by the surgeon in the next room. The room in which the surgeon is working is a less sterile work environment than that of the operating room where the patient lies. It is much like an office; phones are ringing, there is heavy foot traffic and personal conversation-at times at crescendo level. Despite the distractions, the surgeon leans in toward the video-enabled console, which gives three-dimensional views and performs the cardiac surgery using finger controls and foot pedals that tele-manipulate tiny instruments, a light and a camera).
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 Digital Archive Japan / DAJ, The canon of Poitiers, c1350, (1843). Incised tomb slab brought from the Abbey of St Genevieve, showing the canon of Poitiers and chancellor of Noyon. He is wearing an alb with fleurs de lys and roses, and chasuble. On his maniple and stole is an Etruscan
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