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Monday, January 12, 2009
Robotic-assisted surgery
For the past week I’ve been writing non-stop about surgeons. It’s been interesting, but at the same time, I’m sort of skeptical of some of the new advances I’m hearing about. One in particular is the robotic-assisted surgery available at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital. This is how it works. The device, da Vinci, translates a surgeon’s hand movements into corresponding micro-movements of instruments positioned inside the patient. Um, that sounds intense! What happens if it breaks in the middle of a procedure or worse malfunctions and cuts off the wrong body part? Surgeons who utilize the machine, reassure me that those scenarios are unlikely, but I still have my doubts.
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