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	Archive > July, 2008	Vol. IX, No. 7

Editor's Page

Operating in High Def

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

For general surgeon Kory Jones, MD, the moment of truth came during her first high-def laparoscopic cholecystectomy. She glanced up at the flat-panel monitor and was able to see, with amazing clarity and detail, the tiny hole from the fine gauge needle she used to inject local anesthetic at the site where she inserted the trocars.

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