Meet the Next Generation of Doctors—and Their Surgical Robots
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BY NEHA MUKHERJEE SCIENCE Don't worry, your next surgeon will definitely be a human. But just as medical students are training to use a scalpel, they're also training to use robots designed to make surgeries easier. WHEN MEDICAL STUDENT Alyssa Murillo stepped into surgery, she was met with something most wouldn’t expect to find in an operating room: a towering surgical robot. She wasn’t there to observe the kind of surgeries she was used to seeing; instead she was getting an in-depth view inside the patient’s body through the robot’s video console.
Meet the Next Generation of Doctors—and Their Surgical Robots
Meet the Next Generation of Doctors—and Their…
Meet the Next Generation of Doctors—and Their Surgical Robots
BY NEHA MUKHERJEE SCIENCE Don't worry, your next surgeon will definitely be a human. But just as medical students are training to use a scalpel, they're also training to use robots designed to make surgeries easier. WHEN MEDICAL STUDENT Alyssa Murillo stepped into surgery, she was met with something most wouldn’t expect to find in an operating room: a towering surgical robot. She wasn’t there to observe the kind of surgeries she was used to seeing; instead she was getting an in-depth view inside the patient’s body through the robot’s video console.