[LINK] How far the fibre?

[Craig Sanders]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:39:29AM +1000, Eric Scheid wrote:
> On 2/7/07 11:16 AM, "Craig Sanders" <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > if you asked the people living out there, they'd say they'd rather
> > have a hospital or a doctor. even a nurse would be an improvement
> > over the nothing they have now.
>
> and not tele-medicine provided via fat broadband?

not very useful for acute appendicitis, or a car crash, or poisoning or
any of the many other things that require on-the-spot expertise, right
now...rather than booked days or weeks in advance.

not terribly useful for surgery, either. even if tele-operated devices
became good enough to be useful for general surgery, it would require a
huge investment in the required equipment....and that just isn't going
to happen in a tiny remote community, any more than the govt. is going
to build a fully equipped hospital in a tiny remote community.

craig

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