Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future

[WonderWomanFan4life]

she looks like demi moore and brook sheilds all in one.

[dylanlawless1]

I love getting thumbs up

[gr4ndhustle]

she might be a surgeon and she might be an inventor but she sure as hell knows how to give a talk-for-dummies.. and we all know nobody is waiting for that >_>

[ronkini123]

i like her

[RyanB0011]

Your asking companies to pay more for something when they can pay less to get the same job done. Different Countries have different standards of living and costs of living. The wages may seem low to you but to someone in another country it gets them by just fine.

[RyanB0011]

I'm not going to buy American if the product sucks compared to what BMW can offer me.

[Snuffomatica]

Yeah, cheers for the barrage of abuse you sent me privately.

Nobody is trying to take away your desperate need to express your narrow minded opinions.

On the flip side you need to realize that if you talk shit you're going to get shit back.

No I won't piss off. Why don't YOU piss off somewhere other than the states and find a much bigger world is waiting outside your parochial narrow minded one?

Take care and don't forget to get a passport when you travel.

[Snuffomatica]

Just a brief reminder... You tube isn't exclusively for American viewers so your 'We' is rather irrelevant here.

[Drungmus]

because not everyone is American you retard

enjoy the slow but inevitable decline of your economy

[soupisgoodfood42]

BMW has factories in America and employs many Americans, AFAIK.

[triwillb]

okay, so in the uk we'll only buy british goods, mainland europe will only buy eu-based goods, china will only buy chinese goods etc. where do you think that'll go?

[connor646]

sending us back thousands of years in social evolution.

[transtlantic]

I want to use this tools someday! they look amazing with amazing potential possibilities!

I can only wonder what it will be in 20 more years! nanotech? :P

[haidegger1]

If you liked this, check out Dr. Satava's talks.

search for "Richard Satava" on youtube or

google "businessinnovationfactory satava" .

For more on surgical robotics, see the blog "surgrob"

[DavidMTRutten]

Wow, this almost makes me wish I need surgery...

[sisyphusorianus9787]

amazing that they treated excess cephalic pressure w/trephenation, so long ago...

[jwfcp]

I say nay to you naysavers, this is friggin awesome.

[alcany]

Green fluorescent protein FTW...in the near future.

[lebasson]

Nothing wrong with the content, it just could've easily fit into a 3-minute TED talk if she hadn't addressed the room like a bunch of slow retards.

[tubehax]

Oh wow she was so full of shit that I almost felt like disregarding the content.

[bcosten2007]

the next step would be to give the camera, with its arms, an independent body - remove the tube and make it wireless - have the patient ingest it at night - the micro robot performs its task then disintegrates in the intestines.

[fuerstjd]

I liked the video but there is one thing that bothers me. So much of the work done on surgical robotics or any other medical field is done not by MD's but biomedical/mechanical/electric­al engineers, chemists, etc. who do not get the credit they deserve. These are the people behind the scenes that make the new awesome tehcnology work. The surgeon who put in your pacemaker saved your life but so did the engineers who designed the pacemaker. Modern medicine does not come from MD's alone.

[mixovirus]

this robot is made and developed by a team, but the only one who can perform a surgery and risk patient's life is the surgeon, and the tricky thing is if a procedure goes wrong because multiple causes (robot, surgeon, or patient particularities) surgeon must be prepared to operate the traditional way! so at last is the surgeon who really bears all the responsibility on patient's life. And that robot costs "gold" so I think the team receives a full check of credit too ;)

[mixovirus]

Yes I understand your point of view, and its true, but its like the F1 racing, its a highly trained multidisciplinary team of engineers to prepare the best car, but if the team wins, the driver is the one who pops the champagne and get peoples attention.

[andyrooney12]

@fuerstjd

I understand what you are saying but I respectfully have to disagree. To truly be an expert in a particular field means that you cannot be an expert in another. There is so much to know about the human body just as there is so much to know about robotics. The human body is so complicated that we have specialists (urologists, neurologists...etc) so surgeons should be surgeons. Of course, surgical robotics should do what Microsoft did & make sure to get A LOT of user feedback & advice.

[ikirezi1]

As someone who has just had a heart attack I really appreciate Catherine Mohr's lecture. Having a new `situational empathy` in life I really appreciate and affirm her closing remarks. Catherine is obviously a highly gifted lady and her passion to share and inspire with touch more lives than she will ever know.

[james2010saha]

Joke fail at 16:30

[SpiralOut11235]

Delivery

[rata0071]

jaja yeah totally, i notice that too

[afthefragile]

This is only the very basics of robotic surgery. It has actually advanced a lot more than this. There is even remote robotic surgery where the surgeon can sit at his home and perform the surgery from there while the robots do the surgery wherever. Especially used in Australia in remote places where hospitals aren't close by.

All this sounds really exciting but then comes the thought if you're gonna become a surgeon, you need to forget most other things in your life. Its a very intense job.

[Solicitude7]

Fascinating, but absolutely disgusting :/

[kausama]

Penis.

[ANDR3W1848]

Fascinating!

[Dariovich]

hope someday this kind of stuff can be done in an emergency situation =)... but i think that im just dreamin at this point.

[koochkooch]

That was so inspiring! I'm working through First Year Health Sciences in the hopes of a place in Med School. This talk has fueled my passion for Medicine and given me a new perspective of the technologies of Medicine that I had never dreamed of before. That was truely, truely amazing!!

[mmminivannn]

This talk was informative but depressing.

[saxquiz]

Dood, we're all gunna live forever!

[Animalll2003lll]

what about nano robots? can't we make tiny robots that are going to recognize, bind to and kill cancer cells and tear them out of the body? I want to go into nano design...

[mastershake1000]

That'd be pretty difficult.

[allshaffer1]

please have this robotic company contact Dr. Brian Perri att Cedar's Spine Center in Los Angeles.

[tenisplayer]

i like robots simple, fast, cheaper and they get better each year humans not.

think about it

[Mrmoc7]

We're all idiots, some of us just hide it better than others.

[Revelations170189]

just an addition doing it in vivo is impossible it forms a teratoma a sort of fubar tumor and it will always form a teratoma because growth factors of all types are present in the plasma.

[Revelations170189]

and once again we give the average idiot the information and they go off making wild claims that are massive stretches of the truth. mermade im a lab tech a person who is actually qualified in science. and you have totally misinterpreted the idea of stem cells, we cant make a whole organ or limbs in vitro or in vivo right now we need over 100 growth factors just to get one type of cell, and organs are made of several different cells and we dont even know half the factors.stfu, bailey is right.

[mermadeinheaven]

1. Flesh and bone has been regrown (organs, finger tips, teeth, etc).

2. Limbs consist of flesh and bone.

3. Therefore, limbs can be regrown (in theory).

If that's too hard for u to understand, then maybe u need some stem-cells injected into ur brain.

lol

[BaileysBeads]

I'm not saying limbs can't be grown, I'm saying that we're very far from growing limbs straight from a body.

Organs haven't been grown inside a body yet, they've been grown in vitro.

[Revelations170189]

great she clarified for you that she is to stupid to understand even a simple scientific concept, check out her profile she is like 16. ignore the ignorant whiny teenagers.

[mermadeinheaven]

Purposely attacking other people by focusing your attention on their age and/or their youtube channel reveals more about you and your so-called "qualifications" than it does about anyone else, Miss 'Qualified on youtube'.

lol

[Revelations170189]

And naturally you do exactly as i expected, of course im attacking your age, your 2 years of high school biology are a joke and your massive miss interpretation of stems cells and cell cultures only furthers the common view that your just a kid who is unwilling to accept when they are beaten. show me a stem cell grown human organ, hell you cant even show me a one grown from stem cells of another mammal. so accept that you know jack or you are just making people look down on you more.

[mermadeinheaven]

lOL actually, you're doing exactly what u would do given ur messed up programming, which obviously consists of a concoction of regurgitated religious ideologies shamefully intermixed with science to produce the diseased ulcer that is your brain. No wonder Allah gave up on you lol

Revelations170189: "i bear witness that there is no god except for Allah, and muhammed is the messenger of Allah."

Yeah, right. So much for your scientific credibility.

lol

[Revelations170189]

lol oh my non existent god... at least i went to the trouble of checking your account fully, i have subscriptions to almost every athiest on here, that was a response to some muslims who challenged me to say some pray shit and i said it to disprove that challenging me to say something is not proof for or against me being religious.

[Revelations170189]

and fuck you intermixed with science, all im quoting is science, hell proven science unlike your bullshit "we can already grow peoples limbs and organs write off their bodies" at least what i say i can prove, hell do you even know what a growth factor is? even if i just got shit from wikipedia i could still keep you sounding like a 16 year old although im starting to doubt your even that old.

[TimTrimT]

@Revalations and Mermadeinheaven: Go get a hotel room the both of you. Your long winded arguments either illustrate how you both need to find new hobbies, or they illustrate the deep lust for each other that is burning in your souls. Either way cut it out - it's become spam now.

Flame me all you want - or just quietly go. (Hint: Only the later option is respectable.)

Otherwise this video was absolutely awesome! :D

[papasitoman]

Well said. Youtube comment debates go nowhere. If you see that someone disagrees with you and strongly, just forget it. You're not going to convince them. You've said your point now move on.

[mermadeinheaven]

calm down already and do something constructive with ur life

lol

[Revelations170189]

holy shit Zen Biology Lesson for Enlightenment, you call me indoctrinated, your are so far beyond reason, trying to weave science into you own half way to religious bullshit. why do you even go to school? your just wasting peoples time.

[mermadeinheaven]

llol

[Elephantintheroom01]

It seems like your so indoctrinated you can't even consider the possibility of science working with Zen principles. Science should have taught you not to be so closed minded.

You can call Zen Buddhism a religion but those same people would call Science a religion too. Buddhism is quite logical and is sometimes used as a supplement to psychology.

[Revelations170189]

i would demand evidence from you to justify you claim but i already know your an idiot.

[Elephantintheroom01]

Drawing a conclusion without evidence is unscientific.

Buddhism teaches that you arent punished for your anger but by your anger. I think it is this punishment which makes you feel the need to insult me.

[Revelations170189]

drawing a conclusion without scientific evidence is unscientific? well durr that's exactly what i just said to you. which is exactly why i called you an idiot because i new you would come back with that "you immediatly dismiss it therefore you are wrong" argument. i dissmiss it because it has already been proven wrong, i took no position at first, and once i heard more about it i came to release that it was just religion without the god.

[Revelations170189]

hmm... after examining your favorites list with that pseudoscience spirit molecule, we are the masters of our own universe trash, my previous affirmations where confirmed put simply you really are just a 16 year old who has no idea what their saying, put in a form you can understand i suppose what im saying is i have already confirmed your an idiot, and that arguing with you achieves nothing. and thus you are not worth my time...

[mermadeinheaven]

"and thus you are not worth my time.."

lol and that's why ur back again, because u just cant help urself can u? aww, dont worry, i'll pray to allah for u lol

[Revelations170189]

the fact that you end every single comment with lol still serves to further validate my claims as to your scientific opinions being pointless... and as for messed up programming? your the one spurting out this we can already do this corporations are just evil bullshit at least muslims will go all out.

[tenisplayer]

stem cells can do whatever they want

[pimpdaddypiggy]

Hypothetical syllogisms FTW

[afthefragile]

Its a lot more complicated than that.

[DriftingMunki]

Truly amazing.

She ended it very well.

[ahcult]

vaginas are lovely

[chulo4lyfe]

amen.

[iamafractal]

When i had my gallbladder removed the dr. gave up on doing it lapiscropically and they cut my abs completely open. that was not fun.

[MovieMan14]

so you were awake for this? :O!!!!!!!

[iamafractal]

not that i know of, but it still wasn't fun for a few years. and i was awake for at least 2/3 of those years.

[mermadeinheaven]

Surgery is primitive. The new technology for healing / curing / treating is/will be found in biophysics, bioengineering and bioenergetics.

[Palaflax]

shit happens; biophysics, bioengineering and bioenergetics won't rule out things like severe sport injuries, potentially cancer, and other continuously mutating viruses. For those, you'll need nanotechnology, or surgery, and what this lady talked about is a step in the right direction.

[mermadeinheaven]

But they will rule them out. Absolutely. Even now these technologies can regrow lost limbs and eliminate cancers without surgery. And soon even super viruses will have no effect on our biology. For instance, they will be defenseless against programmable nanobots.

[Palaflax]

Attaching grown limbs still requires "primitive" surgery, there's really no other way to adhere it to the body.

So those technologies can eliminate cancers eh? Today, even? Wow, I thought they were still looking for cures for cancer. Maybe you have an article or something to back that claim up?

And yes, nanotechnology is the future.

[mermadeinheaven]

"Attaching grown limbs still requires "primitive" surgery"

I didnt say reattaching, i said regrow. I don't know how up-to-date you are on the latest developments in science, but we already have technology to regrow whole limbs that have been severed or crushed.

"So those technologies can eliminate cancers eh? Today, even? Wow, I thought they were still looking for cures for cancer"

Yes, today. Do some research instead of listening to news stories and you might actually find out something new.

[BaileysBeads]

Regrowing whole limbs straight from the body? Ha, sources please.

[mermadeinheaven]

watch?v=pGU5QE_sz8U

Ha .. lol

[BaileysBeads]

Haha, A WHOLE FINGERTIP?

You said LIMBS.

[mermadeinheaven]

I did say limbs, because the technology to regrow limbs exists.

Don't doubt the potential of stem cells, skeptic. Instead, do some research and upgrade your knowledge-base or stay forever ignorant. lol

[BaileysBeads]

I am not. I fully subscribe to the potential of stem-cells.

But you're turning it into a fairy tale now. Regrowing limbs straight from a body is a fantasy. You're going over the fact that whole organs like bladders are already grown in vitro and then surgically placed into a human body.

That's the whole point of the post you were responding to. Stem-cell techniques needs surgery in order to be implemented in the body.

[mermadeinheaven]

Fact: Limbs can be regrown. This is not a fairy tale. Regeneration of limbs is going to become ubiquitous within our life-time, so long as greedy corporations and corrupted media don't slow the process of dissemination.

And sure, certain stem-cell applications do require surgery, but it's nothing like the kind of primitive-conventional surgery being employed now in most countries.

[BaileysBeads]

You haven't shown me a regrown limb yet, so they can't be regrown yet.

[mermadeinheaven]

Do i have to show u a fully regenerated limb in order for the science of regeneration to be real? lol i bet u didnt even know such a science existed before i showed u the cbs clip.

All i said was that the technology exists to regrow an entire limb, and it does. In the same way the technology to make a personal supercomputer the size of a notebook exists. But just because u havent seen one made doesnt mean it cant be made. Understand? The science is real - accept it.

[BaileysBeads]

Being subscribed to this TED channel I know enough about genomics to tell you that regenerated limbs do not exist.

Your inability to show me but a regrown fingertip says enough.

It simply does not exist right now, which means it's still science fiction.

[mermadeinheaven]

As i said, the fact that we can build things that you or I havent seen doesnt detract from the fact that they can be built. In the same, just because u havent seen an entire arm regrown doesnt mean it cant be regrown. The fact is that the technology exists, now.

[mermadeinheaven]

I mean, the technology to build a personal supercomputer the size of a pen exists now.. but i dont hear u bitching that it cant be done.

[ChowZeb]

BMW needs to stop naming their cars after numbers. It makes them sound generic.

[aarondkeogh]

I'll miss you like a hole in the head

[dragonheadthing]

Wow! Awesome stuff.

[XStreetKingSX]

Future wife= robot....YES!!

[Airave]

The last comment was Amazing!

Bravo Dr, Mohr!

[SpecialKit]

Who knew somebody would be so naive to have thought that such a complicated scientific field just emerged suddenly from nothing.

Who knew somebody would be so naive as to think that there aren't still SCORES of incompetent surgeons.

And don't feel superior to somebody who has spent so much time and energy trying to learn how to save people's lives, it makes you look both shallow and ignorant.

[Mrmoc7]

Relax. I'm allowed to feel superior to surgeons; I might be one someday. The comment above was intended to be a jocular one, and I'm quite surprised at how many kind responses it has elicited.

[SpecialKit]

Lol you "might be one someday" huh? Not likely at all. Post your real name on here though so just in case I can avoid having you anywhere near my precious organs.

[Mrmoc7]

"Lol you "might be one someday" huh? Not likely at all."

You have the power to make a med school retract someone's admission?

Jefferson Medical college, class of 2013 bitch!

[subtledge]

it's a shame that your mom has proved quite incompetent at birth control, and here you are. oh well there's always natural selection....

[Spacemonkey2084]

Seriously? Which field hasn't had an incompetent history?

Unless of course you think that the Earth is the center of the universe, the world's species were created in their current forms, strapping wings on a person's arms is a good way to fly, it's possible to turn lead into gold through chemical processes etc.

All fields start out confused. If they didn't science would have no place to take them.

[Mrmoc7]

You've been spending too much time on teh internets [sic]. The comment above was intended to be a joke; i'm not one of those religious nuts you waste your time arguing with 24/7 while procrastinating your history paper.

Peace. :)

[Spacemonkey2084]

I didn't mean that I expected you believed those things. I was only trying to highlight how far fields like chemistry, biology, physics, and astronomy have come.

;)

[fuerstjd]

The truth is for the longest time the unform of the surgeon was that of the leather apron, just like the butcher. The surgeon was a "sawbones" capable of amputation and blistering and that was it. It wasn't until after WWI and the introduction of antibiotics that the surgeon adopted the uniform of the scientist, the white coat, to try to legitimize his skill as a medical science and not just human butchery. The history of surgery was pain, blood, death and incompetence.

[saral6978]

This is fascinating, but yeah, should not have watched this while I'm trying to eat my egg salad sandwich!! lol!!

[musicgeniusno1]

Excellent :)

[MewFushisDad]

That was riveting. Absolutly amazing.

[Mastikator]

Really cool

[BenaffleckofSmeg]

Concise history, fantastic innovation and Inspired delivery.

Best TED I've seen yet.

[GetMeThere1]

So....my question is, based on the example that this surgeon sets: Is it really even POSSIBLE for a surgeon not to be annoyingly narcissistic and distractingly self-centered?

[PrivateSlacker]

The amount of self confidence it takes to be a surgeon is well above normal people. You have to be, in order to cut a living human open and not be trembling with self doubt.

Any variable of humanity plays out on a bell curve. With self confidence, the ones at the high end are arrogant a-holes and are easily visible and memorable. The ones on the low end are humble while still capable, and are not noticed while they quietly gain epic wins then quietly go back home to their beautiful life.

[dwnboy12]

THIS IS AN AMAZING VIDEO! i was thinking about going to biotech and this further made my choice clear!

[littleoutrage]

Good luck!

[Docthewrench]

WE humans have what it takes but we need to all come together as ONE race one species and put down all out differences who is better then who cause there is not one better then the other. WE are all of one race. IN the words of the Asgard " you have such great potential"

[littleoutrage]

I'm with you... we are all the same race!

[quosmo1]

what about all the morons ?

[BallinTrollin]

oh shit....this is gonna look painful.....*comment b4 watching*

[Shigren]

I was eating yogurt when I was watching this. I had to stop several times <_<

[HiAdrian]

Thanks for tellling me, your comment is on the top at moment so it's the first thing i saw. I'm eating a sandwich right now :)

[Shigren]

hahaha. Yeah this was definitely the wrong video for my lunch break =)

[McAlaMode]

That was amazing. :]

[LotsOMovies]

Until the very end of the lecture, the audience was surprisingly mute. In contract I was watching this video in very vocal wonder.

Do you think she was speaking to a crowd so astonished and amazed that they could not react, a crowd too absorbed with contemplating her lecture and its implications to be able to react, or just a crowd that had heard too many lectures that day and wound up tired and passive?

[ravishethwala]

AM I only one to notice "TRANS"

[Matsern2k]

This was an awesome lecture, i think i just got alot smarter also.

[zombiesmasher]

Incredible!

[ikghazali]

Excellent lecture

[Ezmarii]

Great video. The last few minutes she really gets her point across...that she truely enjoys her job saving lives AND making surgery easier to recover from. =D

[1trip711]

Awesome

[popaddict]

Anyway, what an amazing talk! to think of what is possible really is quite astonishing. Also I liked the note that she ended with about facing your mortality.

Amazing.

[lakermangmx]

fail

[popaddict]

ah cr@p