Miniaturized TV cameras voyaging deep into the body revealing sources of pain. Surgery requiring no stitches. Robot arms, powerful as video game warriors, repairing dying hearts. lnfrared wands targeting a cancerous mass of fast-growing tumors. lnnovations today only beginning to reveal the promise of tomorrow. Next on Operating ln The Future. Even in the hands of the best doctors, the body takes a beating during traditional surgery. But as we turn the corner into the new century, surgeons are revolutionizing the ways they operate. They're making smaller incisions, using computers and cameras to illuminate anatomy's secrets, and practicing surgery via remote stations from across the room or across the world. This prescription mixes raw high tech, healthy measures of knowledge and vision and a large dose of compassion. Because medicine always comes back to helping a person. A person with a problem. A person like Cliff Boag. lt's always there. 95 percent of the time, it's there. Cliff is a 40-year-old father of three. For the last five years, he's lived with a stabbing, stubborn pain in his groin. Mysterious from the beginning, the pain overshadows Cliff's life.