03-01-05 Dr. Fagin on daVinci Robot

Imagine having surgery without a doctor ever touching you. Robots are replacing surgeon's hands and it's going on right here in Austin. As Fox 7's Will Jenson reports, doctors and their patients are calling the results ""simply amazing"". (We're headed that direction anyway and we need to do something about it). Thousands of radio listeners feel like they know Sergeant Sam Cox (There's more jobs coming into the US.) but what he hasn't talked about until now is a recent is he's a recent prostate cancer survivor. (Any man or woman that hears the big C, it's stunning, you know, it it really is. It catches you flat footed.) And when he chose treatment, he chose this....(it looks like some gigantic piece of machinery with arms and all kinds of covers and plastics and stuff.) It's a robot called the daVinci. and this robot removed his prostate. i was in the hospital and out the next and under my own steam, and to me that's wonderful i haven't opened up a patient in over 3 years cause i can't find a reason to. Dr. Randy Fagin is the only doctor in Austin that does robotic surgery, he's one of the top 7 doctors in the country, to actually look through this eye piece and see what the instruments can do on the inside it's like watching Cirque de Soliel you can't believe what you're actually seeing this is video of Dr. Fagin to laproscopically sew a urethra back to a bladder after removing the prostate, down here are the hand instruments that the surgeon holds on to, he uses hand and foot controls that remotely move the robots arms, it's like placing my eyes a centimeter away from the patient's body and magnifying that fourteen times, i can't get inside somebody's body what this camera can and it gives me a view as if i were there, some say this type of technology is difficult to learn but it's worth it for the patient, less pain, a shorter hospital stay and a faster recovery. to the point that most parents aren't don't need pain medicine when they leave the hospital, motrin, ibuprofin, tylenol is all they need, man down man down, engineers at UT are using similar technology to study robot manned trauma pods to treat soldier in battle, when he's, when somebody's injured, he'll be pulled into the trauma pod, and the machine will be stabilized by a surgeon working remotely, an agency within the department of defense is spending 14 million dollars on the two year study, if it seems feasible, it'll pump another 40 million dollars into the project, you reduce the time to get help to a patient, from, it could be more than an hour to less than a minute, and that's really the goal, Dr Fagin says robots are one of the biggest advancements in medicine in more than twenty years, making painful procedures nothing to be afraid of, Dr. Fagin gave me a 20 year warranty, that's a good thing, that's a real good thing, giving people like Sergeant Sam precious time, on one hand, they're holding a gun to the employers in Texas, because he still has a lot to say.

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