| Title:
| Don't dismiss robot surgeons
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| Description:
| Lord Winston in his new BBC1 series, Superdoctors ...worries "...that robotic nurses and robotic doctors are completely contrary to what medicine is about." ... The second half of Superdoctors dealt with two robot surgical assistants. First was a da Vinci robot, the most widely used in the world, performing laparoscopic surgery on an infant. Second was a £12m Canadian neuroArm assisting in the removal of a brain tumour. Unlike human surgeons, neuroArm can operate inside an MRI scanner to make brain surgery extremely accurate. This time the criticisms were that the instruments were too large, which is not hard to fix, and that human surgeons could have performed the operations just as well. Lord Winston concludes, "I hate the idea of the surgeon being removed from the patients." But surely distant control is the biggest advantage of using robots. Human contact is certainly important in medical treatment but it can come from other carers at the site.
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| Author:
| Noel Sharkey
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| Orig. Date:
| August 26, 2008
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| Source:
| The Guardian: guardian.co.uk
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:41:02 -0700
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