These new wi-fi doctors are all the rage. There has been robotic surgery advances too. Some of the better equipped hospitals have a system called the da vinci robot, or perhaps cyberknife. The idea is to have surgery available from a long distance performed by a competent trained operator, perhaps very far away in another country possibly. I like to think of it as a backup strategy in case a surgeon would not be immediatly available at location, there may be a surgeon at another hospital with suitable facility to perform the operation from distance.