May 19, 2006 5:39 PM

Everything About Robot Surgery You Were Afraid to Ask

Do you have a burning desire to know the latest about robot surgery? (That’s robots performing surgery on humans, not the other way around.) I thought you might. Check out this free review article in the New England Journal of Medicine. The author describes one of several reasons why surgeons are psyched about robots doing […]

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The author describes one of several reasons why surgeons are psyched about robots doing their jobs:

An otolaryngologist by trade, I used to perform microscopic middle-ear surgery in a space the size of a pistachio shell.

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