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This is pretty amazing stuff. The only thing that would worry me is what if the operator sneezes or twitches hmmmm?
A Da Vinci surgical robot was on show at an open event to raise awareness of men's cancers for Blue September at Southmead Hospital. Members of the public, former patients, prospective patients, staff and GPs all attended the event to try their hand at robotic surgery. Here, urology fellow Ramesh Thurairaja peels a grape.
Now what else would a urology fellow work on that looks like a grape?????
A good friend is alive and well thanks to this machine.
ReplyDeleteHe had stage 4a cancer in his throat.
In the past, surgery would have literally involved peeling back his face and cutting through his jawbone to get the cancer out. Radiation would have killed all of his saliva glands and likely his tastebuds as well...
With this, they can see like through a microscope but in 3-D. As they're cutting out cancer, they can make slices so thin that one layer of cells is cancer and the other is healthy tissue.
The robotics allow them to get so close and make such fine movements, there's simply no way a surgeon could do the same by hand.
They did most of his right through his mouth, with a couple of small incisions under his chin.
A year later and you'd never know he'd been sick!
Meanwhile, his cousin who had the same cancer 2 years earlier has huge scars and no saliva, no tastebuds... Two guys with the same cancer. One guy's ugly and living a miserable existence, the other's 100% with no outward signs of ever having had a problem - all thanks to the daVinci robot!
Good morning DD :)
ReplyDeleteIt is definitely an amazing machine and from the story of your friend it shows how far we have come in terms of medical miracles. It would be nice if they could cure cancer before having to deal with all the chemo, radiation and surgeries.
I'm glad your friend made out so well thanks to the robot.
Although his cousin is miserable at least he's alive I guess.