New technology developed at MIT could lead to surgery and physical repairs done over the internet

This is only at the early stages, but you can see that with technological improvements, it's not that far away before emergency medical care could be delivered by laying a tablet computer and some special device in front of someone:

The inFORM was developed by MIT PhD students Sean Follmer, Daniel Leithinger, and Professor Hiroshi Ishii, from MIT’s Tangible Media Group. Revolutionary steps when thinking of physical form science and architecture, being able to shape and mold an object without even being in the room.