The patient was in an operating room at AdventHealth Minneola, while Dr Vipul Patel controlled the surgical instruments remotely from AdventHealth Celebration, located 35 miles away. A doctor in Florida performed a medical first on Sunday, using a robotic telesurgery system to perform a surgery at a hospital located 35 miles away. The patient was at a facility in Minneola, Florida, while the surgeon operated remotely from another.