This sad incident has been widely reported in the foreign press. The lead surgeon was an attention-loving Indian or Bangladeshi. He later admitted that he hadn’t attended the required instructional classes. Well, he went to the conference — free food, drink, hotel, travel — but once there declined to attend the seminars. The operation, when performed the old-fashioned way, has a 99% success rate.
NHS has life and death control over you. That’s the purpose of nationalized health care. Oops, you’re dead, matey! don’t get your knickers in a twit over it, keep a stiff upper lip, cheerio and all that but you can’t sue NHS.
“At one point the robot punctured the intra-aortic septum....” This an example of incorrect reporting.... there is no such thing.
What there is, is the INTRA-Atrial and the INTRA-Ventricular septa (septums) EITHER of which, if punctured would be catastrophic with massive surgical blood loss.
The question has to be asked-— was this patient on a heart lung machine so the heart could be stopped while being worked on? This is an obvious question— that quite obviously the answer to is...... NO. If they were “on the heart lung pump” they would not have died on the table and the robot eventually could have been cut off, so a REAL surgeon could repair the damages as best they could.
The REAL horror in all of this— is that it is National Health Care (the model for obamaumaocare, btw), and so... there can be no LIABILITY for the gubmint doctors murdering a patient by proxy with a robot. So.... ironic and horrible.
Well, at least his death precludes the NHS from wasting any more of its oh-so limited budget on him. Now doctors can focus on making other patients die in the waiting room from lack of attention.
“Crush, kill, destroy!”
Who programmed that thing, Dr. Smith?
“Their analysis, published in the BMJ on Tuesday, shows that “medical errors” in hospitals and other health-care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third-leading cause of death in the United States — claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer’s.”
http://www.hospitalsafetygrade.org/what-is-patient-safety/errors-injuries-accidents-infections
And self driving cars kill.
There will be a choice given to patients while the AI and robotic stuff is worked out.
“ms. Smith, will you have robot or no robot for the surgery this morning.”
Surgical robots will now be required in the U.K. for pensioners.