Doctors in TV link-up
PA Auckland Closed-circuit microwave television will be used to link New Zealand doctors in the four main centres in a unique medical symposium. An Auckland seminar on arthritis in the 1980 s will be beamed to Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Doctors attending arthritis seminars in these other centres will see the proceedings of the Auckland seminar projected on to a large video screen.
They will be able to ask questions which will be transmitted to the Auckland symposium and answered. It is the first time the technique has been used to enable a national medical symposium to be run in four centres simultaneously. It will result in savings in time and travel for doctors outside Auckland. . The symposium will be held under the auspices of the New Zealand Rheumatism Association and supported by F rosst-
a division of Merck Sharp and Dohme (NZ), Ltd.
The company will bring two eminent speakers to the symposium - Dr E C. Huskisson, a British rheumatologist, and Dr "V. Shen, an inventor of pharmaceutical products used in the treatment of arthritis and rheumatism. The New Zealand rheu-* matologists, Dr David Caughey and Dr Peter Moller, will also take part in the seminar, which is expected to attract 700 doctors.
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