Details: From robots assisting in hip and knee replacement surgeries to a microrobot no bigger than a comma, the quest for better medical tools is never ending. What once seemed science fiction is now becoming fact. In this episode of 21st Century Medicine, Betty Kelepecz tells us how a total body scan detected her kidney cancer in time to save her life. Now, her brother, who is concerned about chest pains will have a scan. At the Hershey Medical Center, we watch a surgeon train his young resident for a surgery via a computer simulator which allows a sense of touch. And at Johns Hopkins we meet engineers and doctors working together to build robots for surgery.

This series presents an intriguing examination into the reality of health and medicine in the 21st century, as well as groundbreaking stories that have drastically changed the wold of health and medicine. Topics include weight loss, genetics, sports medicine and more.