The first such lights were external although sufficiently capable of illumination to allow cystoscopy, hysteroscopy and sigmoidoscopy as well as examination of the nasal ( and later thoracic ) cavities as was being performed routinely in human patients by Sir Francis Cruise ( using his own commercially available endoscope ) by 1865 in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.
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But the events that led to Mrs . Smart's death began a day earlier, when David Myers, the medical supply salesman, convinced Sklar and Klinger, the head surgeon on the case, that he had obtained authorization from Beth Israel to bring in his Versapoint Bipolar Hysteroscopy Electrosurgery System for use in the hysteroscopic myomectomy, or removal of fibroid tumors.
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Sabharwal graduated in medicine ( MBBS ) from Lady Hardinge Medical College and secured her post graduate credentials ( DGO ) from the same institution before completing training in hysteroscopy under Wamsteker, Haarlem, the Netherlands and in laparoscopy under Adam Magos, Royal Free Hospital, UK . She is a member of several medical organizations such as Indian Association of Gynecological Endoscopists, Indian Fertility Society, Indian Menopausal Society, Indian Association of Endoscopic Surgeons, International Society of Gynecological Endoscopy, Gasless International, Association of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Association of Endoscopic Surgeons of India and has delivered several orations and keynote addresses.
