ARMY
Color Television Symposium.—
The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C., sponsored a three-day symposium in January to explore the feasibility of consultation by pathologists through the medium of color television. The climax of the meeting was a color television presentation that brought pathologists from different cities together for consultation. At the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, a surgeon performed an operation and a pathologist there examined the tissue removed. Television cameras rushed the picture to pathologists in Baltimore and Washington, who assisted in the diagnosis.Television presentations, with the use of coaxial cables and microwaves, were received at the AFIP building from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, from studies in Baltimore, and from Bethesda's National Naval Medical Center. In Philadelphia, Dr. Isador Ravdin, professor of surgery, University of Pennsylvania, performed an operation assisted by his son, Dr. Robert Ravdin; and Dr. Robert