Robotic docs can boost surgery time and cost
For kidney patients, surgical outcomes were similar whether a human or a machine wielded the scalpel
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HELPING HANDS Use of surgical robots for laparoscopic kidney removal has been ramping up, but adding a robot to the mix doesn’t necessarily make surgery more efficient.
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