Really interesting. Back at university I got the chance to attend a surgery since our physics department donored a graphics card for the medical department runn

Really interesting. Back at university I got the chance to attend a surgery since our physics department donored a graphics card for the medical department running a DecAlpha with True64 which had a pixel error. And this machine was used for brain surgery. So better not to have a pixel error. Most of the surgery 8 hours was done with 2 doctors and 2 medical physicists in front of the computer and simulate where to drill a hole in the head and where to pass a needle without touching a vessel. After the coordinates were found the actual surgery 1 hour happened with the patient awake. Also I was very impressed when the neurologist came in and hooked up with a Windows 2000 laptop to the brain pacemaker (against Parkinson’s) and tweaked the stimulation currents. The patient had to count the weekdays aloud and started mumbling around the word “Thursday”. Afterwards the neurologist typed onto his laptop, pressed “enter” and the patient could talk again.