Medical Societies Rally for Robotic Surgery

Medical practitioners including surgeons and doctors are now pushing the use of high-tech robotic equipment in the field of medicine.

These equipments, which are already used in some of the most delicate operations, has a rate of failure comparable to that of traditional surgeries. However, the advantage of using such technology is that it's much more "invasive and allows for greater precision." Reuters.com reports. Similarly, doctors had long been using "medical robots," in fact there are conditions which are better done with machine. An example perhaps is prostate cancer, surgeons prefer the da Vinci Surgical System -- a robotic surgical machine equipped with tiny instruments and a camera, over the conventional surgery. Still, medical regulators are aware that these machines won't be of much help when used by an inexperienced practitioner. "The more you do, the better you're going to get. The question is at what point are you doing safe surgery," Dr. Kevin Zorn of Weiss Memorial Hospital at the University of Chicago told Reuters. Last year, there were about 80,000 robotic prostatectomy procedures done in the United States.