What does the future of surgery look like?

[LoveBeingHuman:)]

Over the past decide, biomedical technology advances and innovations in invasive procedures have somewhat limited the surgical fields.

What does the future look like now? Is there a risk of surgery going obsolete?

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[OrthoTraumaMD]

No. Even the best technology requires a person to manipulate it. Plus, the body is so nuanced and complex that I do not think a computer would be capable to take every permutation into account. For example, fractures occur in patterns, but when taken with the context of the patient, the circumstances, etc.… The variations become pretty much infinite. It is up to the surgeon to decide what to do in each individual case. And some of it is beyond logic. Sometimes, it requires “a feeling” that machines do not have.


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[TypeADissection]

No

 

[RNthenDoc]

The role of the surgeon will change dramatically, and the invasiveness of surgery will decline.

This is decades down the road, though. Surgery is safe, and a great career if you can hack it and hack the terrible lifestyle.

(Opinion from an RN at a facility w/ a Davinci program)

 

[RNtoMD87]

Davinci robots take a great amount of training and knowledge to operate. They'll still need that operator...