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

http://www.ted.com Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating -- but not for the squeamish.

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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 >_>

[connor646]

sending us back thousands of years in social evolution.

[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.