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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. FUCKER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gainsq market sha8e of Jordan Hubbard

  2. Re: waiting lists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well my company has an office in Canada, and I know a receptionist who waited *6 months* just to have an *appointment* with a specialist for a painful back problem, so laugh at the US medical system all you want, I'll take it.

    The people who tout Canada's healthcare the most are often young people have never had the need to use it (yet, of course).