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FabianOvrWrt t1_iqpuag4 wrote

Well, they did surgery on a grape, I'm sold on such a technology.

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BrosephQuibles t1_iqpx3y0 wrote

They also occasionally train surgeons how to use these things with raw chicken breasts.

I work in an operating room and we have two da Vinci robots that do a lot of general and obgyn cases.

Edit: typo.

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FabianOvrWrt t1_iqto8wy wrote

That's very interesting. I wonder which animal has the best resemblance to our bodies in order for surgeons to practice specific procedures.

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BrosephQuibles t1_iqtokzr wrote

The chicken breast was just to familiarize themselves with the machine more than anything. I walked into one of the ORs the other day and the Da Vinci rep was training a surgeon on the machine and they had a model tissue that resembled skin far better than a chicken breast.

When using a multi million dollar robot they typically don’t cut corners on training, I just happened to see the robot operating on a chicken breast that one day. Haha

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