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Tue 08 Aug 2008Small is beautiful and very useful
An Irish firm is behind a major breakthough in the field of minimally-invasive surgery, writes Conor Pope
TODAY'S MEDICAL inventions can make even the recent past look primitive. It is inevitable that a time will come when even the greatest surgeons operating today will be held up alongside the worst class of leech-wielding sawbones of past centuries, as darkly comic illustrations of how brutally and bloodily unsophisticated medicine once was.
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