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Old 04-16-2012, 06:14 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by druggeek View Post
Do you really know enough about surgery and surgical subspecialties to say that a robot could perform those tasks? cmon man... using suturing as an example...lol.
You're not even a medical student.

Have you ever sutured anything? (I hope not a patient, but you could have tried pigs' feet or orange peels.)

I'm not going into a surgical specialty, but I've sutured plenty of wounds/incisions and honored my surgery rotation.

Suturing would be difficult to automate, but far from impossible. The hardest part would be wound approximation. (And obviously the needles would be different.)
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