[ExI] Da Vinci robot surgeon successfully removes inoperable tumor

[Jason Resch]

This video gives a great picture of its capabilities:

https://youtu.be/KNHgeykDXFw?si=6tZ2wk6Hd0sSE2Cq

Jason

On Sun, Sep 10, 2023, 6:51 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Doctors couldn't operate on my tumour, but this robot did — and it may
> have saved my life
> Glenn Deir · CBC News · Aug 27, 2023
>
> <
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/first-person-robot-surgeon-1.6946399
> >
>
> Quotes:
> Given removing the cancer involved delicate cutting of the tonsil,
> tongue and throat, Dr. Lee offered to refer me to a surgeon in Halifax
> who used a robot named da Vinci. There is no da Vinci in Newfoundland
> and Labrador. It's an expensive piece of equipment. Halifax's cost
> just over $8 million.
>
> Da Vinci's "fingers" can go where the human hand cannot. The surgery
> is less invasive, the complications fewer, the recovery quicker. But
> da Vinci is not R2-D2. It does not act autonomously. It does what its
> master directs, and in my case its master was Dr. Martin Corsten.
>
> When I asked Dr. Corsten what the surgery would have looked like
> without da Vinci he replied, "In the good old days, we would have cut
> your jaw in two." That's how they got their access. The image of my
> jaw being split like a turkey wishbone was deeply unsettling.
> Radiation treatment has made even a simple tooth extraction
> impossible. The jaw won't heal properly. Without da Vinci, I had no
> surgical option.
> I have thanked all my doctors profusely. But I reserve a special
> thank-you for da Vinci.
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>
> Amazing technology!
>
> BillK
>
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