Today's operating rooms are rats' nests of equipment and wires, overpopulated with doctors and nurses who must constantly elbow past one  another to actually see what's happening with a patient, adjust an instrument, or read a monitor. Not necessarily the ideal environment for the staff, let alone for the person on the table. But at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, a nonprofit consortium called CIMIT (for Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) is building tomorrow's operating room, and it looks a whole lot different.

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