RE: Robotic Surgery: towards the "perfection"
Future of surgery is just behind us. I can't believe that the robotic surgery combined both the open surgery and the laparoscopic surgery while doing away with the limitation of both. I was a bit taken aback when i read that its application was limited but was later releaved when i read this.
increment by 36% for the use of robotic systems in general surgery.
I want to assume that with its application in gynecologic surgery, it would be useful in improving how ceaserian section is performed in open surgery.
daVinci technology in robotic surgery has really helped to move medicine forward.
One last thing to say is how these robotic arms are controlled: remotely. This means that one day we could have a surgeon managing a surgery from the other side of the world!
Then don't you think that with the above, less surgeons will be needed in the future?
Thanks for this piece doc @cryptoitaly.
No!
First, there will be still need of 1 man (1 surgeon) to operate such technological device. The remote thing will be useful because there are some very rare pathologies and surgeons usually specialize in just one of them. There is no real "general surgery" but surgeons that get specialized on upper gastrointestinal tract, biliary surgery, abdomen wall surgery etc. Best thing is that a very skilled and highly specialized surgeon from Europe would do surgery on an American patient without taking a flight!
That is a good news to hear.