Picture..... A doctor giving a precise diagnosis to a patient miles away... or a surgeon doing complicated surgery on a man in a different time zone! It sounds like a reading from the pages of H.G. Wells doesn't it? But wait! It's happening today!

The Teledoctor, is the results of the efforts of The University of Victoria's Engineering Department and the combined brainstorming of the University's Telephone and Technical Services and Television Services.

"It's a technological wonder" says Dr. Phil N. Enema, chief surgeon of Victoria's inter-city emergency care ward. "It enables us doctors to see twice as many patients in a single day as we normally could."

The system consists of the doctor's viewing screen, multi-lens camera, robotic control simulator, diagnostic read-out controls, television and mini-microscope. The doctor can control the robotic arms, see the patient and speak to the patient. Dr. Phillis O'Bottle, head Urinologist at The Colwood Urinary Disease Drop-In Clinic raves about The Teledoctor: "It's accurate, easy to use and it keeps us doctors away from all those sick people. With The Teledoctor I can take a patient's pulse, give injections, lance boils, take rectal temperature readings, administer suppositories and a host of other complex and time consuming medical procedures."

The Teledoctor is cutting edge in robotic technology. Using the telephone as a means for transferring information, The Teledoctor is accessible to everyone who has a phone in their home. With its hands-on approach, Teledoctor technology has stimulated interest in other areas of business. Soon all homes will have this amazing device available to them. Shut-ins and the very sick can be dealt with in a way that will keep them in bed and not out in the streets and other social areas of our community where they can spread their disease and pestilence to other healthy citizens who take the time to look after themselves in a a proper, healthy way. Yes, it's devices like The Teledoctor that will lead our country into the next century, putting the sick in their place - at home in their rooms, the closed curtain tomb of sickness, far from the healthy sunshine filled world that we all treasure.