Woman Wants To Replace Her Non-functioning Hand With a Bionic Prosthesis

erice writes about the case of Nicola Wilding: "Injured in crash which damaged the nerves in her arm, she has reached the limits that can what be accomplished with nerve transplants. She can move her arm but doctors have given up hope of restoring use of her hand. So she wants doctors to amputate the hand and replace it with a bionic version that does work." The doctor, Oskar C. Aszmann, first performed a similar operation last year.

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Bad comparison

[MrEricSir]

We're going to replace a hand with some sort of toy robot hand with a few motors in it that will not work anywhere near like a real hand.

That's not the comparison she gets to make. Her options are a human hand that doesn't work, a hook, or a "toy robot hand." She doesn't get to wait for future technologies that might never come to apss.