The new iPhone 4 FaceTime video calling feature is already proving to be of considerable use in the medial profession as apparently the first iPhone 4 video calling medical consultation has been done as surgeons at Valley Presbyterian Hospital near LA and University of Arizona used the iPhone 4 FaceTime tech to collaborate in real time, long distance on a wound consultation for a patient.

According to Businesswire, Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona’s Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance, Dr. David G. Armstrong, used the iPhone 4 FaceTime video calling feature to connect with Associate Director of Valley Presbyterian Hospital’s Amputation Prevention Center, Dr. Lee Rogers, in a long distance second opinion and consultation about a patient who had recently undergone surgery.

Dr. Rogers said, “Now, nearly everyone carries a phone in their pocket. It is this compact accessibility that will lead to the adoption of this technology for medical consultations.” While Dr. Armstrong stated, “Just as with the iPod in music and the laptop in computing, it is not the change in technology, but the change in form factor and ubiquity that alters this landscape.”

So there it is the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime feature being utilised by doctors, good job it wasn’t used for a consultation during an actual operation as god knows what would have happened if the doc had touched the antenna.