A Surgeon Removed a Prostate From 35 Miles Away in the First US Inter-Hospital Telesurgery

On Oct. 25, Dr. Vipul Patel operated from AdventHealth Celebration while his 66-year-old prostate cancer patient lay at AdventHealth Minneola, 35 miles away, with a surgical team on site. The procedure succeeded with no complications, and as part of an FDA-authorized study it points toward specialist surgery reaching patients far from big-city hospitals.