The live event, featuring tweeting and delayed photos and video footage of the procedure, will look in as renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Dong Kim removes a benign brain tumor from a 21-year-old woman who recently began suffering seizures. Online broadcasts of medical procedures date to the late 1990s - one of the first involved Dr. Denton Cooley performing coronary artery bypass surgery at the Texas Heart Institute. Art Caplan, a University of Pennsylvania bioethicist, called such webcasts the contemporary equivalent of famous 19th-century paintings of surgical amphitheaters, where doctors and students watch from far above the operating room. Kim, head of neurosurgery at Memorial Hermann and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, will use computer-assisted technology to identify the precise location of the tumor, then remove a portion of the skull bone and the tumor from the patient's right brain.
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