Natural Orifice Surgery

First it was practiced on pigs and now its being done on humans. Natural orifice surgery. In 2004, Venkat Rao and Nageshwar Reddy of India, performed the first natural orifice surgery on a patient by performing an appendectomy through the mouth. Since then, USA doctors have removed gallbladders through the mouth and the vagina. The procedure is to reduce pain and speed recovery since there is no external incision. With no incision in the skin, only the instruments, not the environment, needs to be sterile. The day may arrive where doctors can operate at bedside or even at the site of a car accident or a battle. The days of scalpels may be numbered. Instead, wiggle the endoscope down the throat.
These are the days my friend,
Jim "Train"