Becker's Healthcare February 21, 2022
Surgical robots are hailed for their ability to attract patients and improve outcomes, but some are skeptical of the hype.
Here are five ASC leaders’ opinions on surgical robots:
Ravi Bashyal, MD. Director of outpatient hip and knee replacement surgery at NorthShore University HealthSystem (Chicago): You can’t skip learning how to do the operation properly and just count on the computer to do it for you. [Robotic surgery] takes people and it enhances their skills and ability. I think that if we use it in a nonsubstitutive manner — meaning we’re not using robotics or computers to take the place of our thought process or to make us do less work — we’re using them as enablers. That’s going...
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