'I operated on someone 1,500 miles away'

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The remarkable story of the London surgeon who has carried out the UK’s first remotely controlled prostate operation - operating on a patient 1,500 miles away in Gibraltar. Professor Prokar Dasgupta - who is chair in Robotic Surgery and Urological Innovation at King’s College London - completed the procedure using an operating robot connected via fibre‑optic cables. Paul Buxton, who's 62, was being treated for a tumour. This episode looks into how this procedure worked, and what it means for the future of robotic operations.