Rare Surgical Operation Televised In Melbourne
MELBOURNE, This Day (Rec. 11 a.m.). —Australian medical history was made when a rare surgical operation, lasting one and -a halt hours, was successfully televised at the Melbourne Women’s Hospital. The medical superintendent, Dr W. D. Rehshauge, said it was the first time in the Southern Hemisphere that an operation had been televised. About "20 doctors and nurses watched the operation on a television screen about 50 yards from the operating table. The demonstration was the forerunner of a television training campaign.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1949, Page 5
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