"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Eeyore writes:

Eh ?

Exactly.

Doctors can't perform surgery on simulated human beings,
at least not yet.

Wrong again. That's been around for years.

http://www.golimbs.com/offer_index.p...FSBhgQodyC2pRA

http://www.haptica.com/

They're sophisticated enough to provide force feedback:

http://www.ercim.org/publication/Erc...elingette.html

They even have their own expositions:

http://www.surgery.arizona.edu/expo/...ulatorExpo.htm

which specifically compares them to flight simulators.

And to anticipate one of your dodges, medical sims don't
replace the basic training and experience. They just allow
a mid-level practitioner who has reached sufficient state of
competence to progress toward the higher level of expertise
that is required for a given procedure.

In other words, even you might make hundreds of runs through
a procedure simulator and finally get it right, but that
doesn't make you a qualified surgeon nor does it qualify you
to say that "surgery is easy". There's a lot more to being
a surgeon than just being able to complete some sim runs.

Therefore the first surgery is a "revenue flight": a real
surgical procedure
on a real person, not a practice run. This is quite
unlike many forms of
aviation, which can be practiced in simulation, or even in
real aircraft on
practice flights (with no passengers, and thus
"non-revenue").

Wrong again. Demonstrably so. QED.