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Depth perception in key-hole surgery

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Hippocratic Post

When Phillipe Bozzini first designed and used his Lichtleiter in 1803 to peer into the human body, the medical world unwittingly became reliant on observing the endoscopic view of the human body in only two dimensions and this was 35 years before the mechanism of depth perception was even understood. In 1838 Charles Wheatstone was […]

Why Robotic Prostatectomy is Over Rated

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Professor Chris Eden

I don’t have any intrinsic objection to robotic prostatectomy – in fact I’m trained in it, just as I’m trained in open and laparoscopic (‘hands on’ keyhole) prostate surgery. The cause of my reticence towards robotic surgery relates more to unnecessary cost and unrealistic expectations than to anything else. The steep growth of robotic prostatectomy […]