Although the livestreamed operations were carried out anonymously, one of the patients, David McLoughlin, was happy to reveal his identity and describe his support for the surgical symposium.<\/p>\n
Mr McLoughlin, 62, from Braunston, near Daventry, had his procedure at Northampton General Hospital on Thursday and was able to return home on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He said: “About six weeks ago, I went to my GP after stomach pains and some other tests, and then I went to the hospital for a colonoscopy, which found I had cancer.<\/p>\n
“My consultant, Mr Ahmed, explained about the live-stream and symposium, and I was happy to volunteer to take part. I was impressed and reassured that Mr Ahmed was happy to do my operation, watched by so many other consultants as it happened.<\/p>\n
“I also thought if I can contribute to doctors learning in this ground-breaking way, it has to be helpful to the 60 or more consultants attending to see the robotic technique being done live.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the livestreamed operations were carried out anonymously, one of the patients, David McLoughlin, was happy to reveal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-72007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}