Surgical robot

September 24, 2008

Surgical robot

So I got to try the da Vinci surgical robot last night.

As an internist, it’s probably my first and only time I’ll get a chance to use the system. It has certainly drawn controversy as a reason contributing to the hospital arms race raising the cost of health care.

That being said, it’s quite impressive and I can see how many surgeons enthused about the technology. It’s very intuitive, and after about 30 seconds, it pretty much become an extension of my hands.

It turns surgery into a very expensive video game.

I’d be curious to see what the urologist and gynecologist bloggers think of the system.



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{ 1 comment }

1 kath8562 September 24, 2008 at 8:53 pm

I had a hysterectomy with one of those things–I didn’t know it looked like a cross between Shiva and a stormtrooper, though!
Seriously, it was not so bad a recovery. Have 4 small scars from the trochars and a slightly larger one from the camera arm trochar.

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