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LIFE IN THE NEW BUILDING 121.—For uniformity in war surgery, this material, based on the NATO Handbook, is designed to lessen the language barrier among the medical officers of the NATO nations by telling its story largely in pictures.

room, with remote control so that the cameraman need not be in the operating room itself (fig. 124). A similar overhead camera is mounted in the McNabb Autopsy Suite in the Institute building. With such equipment, an audience of any desired number may view the details of a surgical or autopsy procedure, without the necessity of straining and craning of necks in trying to see what goes on from the limited seating area of an operating theater.

The use of television to facilitate consultation between the surgeon in the operating room and the pathologist in the laboratory, while theoretically feasible, has not been used as widely as was anticipated, presumably because of the practical difficulty in sending and receiving meaningful specimens and slides suitable for simultaneous viewing and diagnostic discussion at a distance.

As a means of broadening and sharpening the teaching of medicine, however, the television camera and receiving sets are finding more and more uses. This is due, in part, to the presentation of televised operations to medical student audiences, but in larger part, to the possibilities for recording and rebroad-