April 5, 2010

Health care news quotes of the day: robots, Nazis, head CTs & media manipulation

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Gerri Shaftel Constant

April 5, 2010 at 5:07 pm

It’s good to see more info coming out about realities of robotic surgery. Some surgeons love the new technology, –it’s fun, like a video game– but having watched robotic heart surgery, I’d be very cautious before getting it. Equipment snafus caused the surgery I watched to last longer than conventional heart surgery. It also felt a bit strange watching a software engineer in the o.r. guide the surgeon through each step of the surgery. All that said the patient who had the surgery recovered just fine. But yikes! I’d have had more faith in the surgeons hands.

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