[V_TWIN]

Surgical robot....what could go wrong? Well apparently EVERYTHING.

[tet68]

Robot doctors, what could go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...

[conservativepoet]

Time for prison.

[cuban leaf]

“Robotic surgeon tries to kill mole on man’s chin by stabbing it repeatedly with a carving knife. Details at 11.”

[Liz]

I feel bad for the dead guy....

But....really....if he actually agreed to have a robot operate on his heart?

Not too smart.

[crusty old prospector]

Sign me up for some of that action.

[unread]

Well, I guess somebody got hacked....

[House Atreides]

Government healthcare at its essence— government employees (doctors) sip lattes while patient needlessly dies.

[KarlInOhio]

The problem isn’t the dead patient. The problem is the gouges cut in the expensive operating table.

[SolidRedState]

Just doing what socialized medicine was designed to do but much more efficiently. They will soon have this perfected to the point the human staff will not need to be present for the elimination of worthless subjects.

[cuban leaf]

...pioneer the use of a surgical robot...

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This event brings a whole new meeting to the phrase, “Bleeding edge”.

[cuban leaf]

Let me just go out on a limb: It was hacked by the Russians.

[ClearCase_guy]

Using experimental robots for heart surgery seems overly ambitious.

I recommend they use this robot for transgender surgery instead.

[Pearls Before Swine]

There’s a difference between the computer controlled arms (often called robotic) that are controlled by the surgeon and an autonomous robotic machine. This sounds like the latter.

“But the dogs were OK.”

It’s hard to believe that this was tried on a human heart, and that the senior surgeons didn’t even think enough of the event to stay and watch.

Socialized medicine. Good luck suing the doctors—they work for the government.

[fishtank]

They “Matrix uploaded” the euthanasia program.

“I know jujitsu”........

[norwaypinesavage]

A key provision of the doctor’s ancient Hypotactic oath is: “First, do no harm”. I guess robots don’t take that oath.

[antidisestablishment]

This happened in February 2015. Why the story now?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6367481/Patient-died-robot-used-heart-op-surgeon-99-chance-surviving.html

[Bonemaker]

[Reily]

Single payer healthcare - NHS on the job!
Now with robots!

[Sequoyah101]

BIL agreed to robot surgery in N. Texas. Serious complications.

Until all my computers are flawless, and they will never be, I will never trust a self-driven car, truck or robotic surgery.