The information processing center in Baining Hospital's administrative complex had been temporarily converted into a viewing room.
An entire wall was a mosaic of high-definition screens, pieced together so seamlessly the joints were nearly invisible.
Thirty or forty chairs had been placed before the screen, and all of them were full.
Another twenty or thirty people were squeezed into the back and along the sides, forced to stand to see the screen.
It was 2:23 PM on a Saturday.
The screen showed a live feed from a general surgery operating room, where Yan Feifan was performing a procedure on a patient with a robotic surgical arm.
On screen, the anesthetized patient lay on their right side, secured to the operating table.
Yan Feifan, the lead surgeon, walked up to the robotic arm's control console and began the operation.
He appeared to tap the control screen a few times casually.
