196: The future of surgery (no, it’s not just robots)
Advisory Board February 20, 2024
Rae Woods (00:02):
From Advisory Board, we are bringing you a Radio Advisory, your weekly download on how to untangle healthcare’s most pressing challenges. My name is Rachel Woods. You can call me Rae. We’re not that far into 2024, and if I’m honest, we’ve already spent a lot of time on this podcast talking about the financial dynamics impacting health systems, and we all know that surgical services are going to be a big part of their economic outlook.
(00:30):
Here’s the thing. If I were to Google right now, what is the future of surgery? I would probably see a bunch of headlines about robots entering the operating room, things that maybe make for a good cable TV...