Now, the streaming surgeon is going live again. The Royal London hospital’s operating theatre—with the live surgery at centre stage—would be available for all to see live in virtual reality.

A trade brochure of the Indian Arthroscopy Society conference slated for October shows how live surgical demos are offered at medical seminars to sponsors, who are divided into different categories.

While the media was fascinated, or outraged at the prospect of Brain Surgery Live, showing viewers the final two hours of a much longer deep-brain stimulation procedure performed at Cleveland’s University Hospitals Case Medical Center, viewers were much less engaged.

Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK have teamed up to air a colonoscopy being performed live on a patient in what the two organisations claim is a world first in broadcasting.