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Surgical Robot Removes Calgary Woman's Brain Tumor

Posted by timothy on from the and-yes-it-had-permission-to-do-so dept.

Raver32 points out an article in the Victoria Times Colonist about an interesting advance in robotic surgery: "Calgary doctors have made surgical history, using a robot to remove a brain tumor from a 21-year-old woman. Doctors used remote controls and an imaging screen, similar to a video game, to guide the two-armed robot through Paige Nickason's brain during the nine-hour surgery Monday. Surgical instruments acting as the hands of the robot — called NeuroArm — provided surgeons with the tools needed to successfully remove the egg-shaped tumor."

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  1. Yup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Socialized medicine is just terrible.

  2. Im a doctor not a video gamer! by Aranykai · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And while on the subject, why do they insist on likening anything with a display and controls to playing a video game? Its not an Atari, its a complex medical machine.

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  3. Re:did they tell her? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, you do. In taxes.

    Remember, there is no such thing as "Free health care" or "Free education". Thinking like that leads to arguments like "Well, it's not that good but I can't complain as it's free.". You are paying for it every time you pay taxes.

    This naturally assuming you aren't circumventing your taxes some way or are posting from prison where you don't pay taxes but get health care or something like that. ;)