Imagine that you have a big surgery coming up. Now imagine
it wouldn’t be doctors preforming the surgery. Now how do you feel? Would it
change anything if you found out that your surgery would be carried out entirely
by robots? Whether you like it or not this is a reality. Robots have completed
an entire surgery including the anesthesiology. The robots put the patient to
sleep and very precisely conducted a surgery removing the prostate of a
patient. The use of robots is so that doctors can provide more accurate and
precise surgical maneuvers. Dr Hemmerling, one doctor at the hospital that the
robotic surgery occurred, said “Robots will not replace doctors but help them
to perform to the highest standards” (Bates). The doctor said this to assure
reporters that robotics will not replace human doctors. I think that doctors
are necessary for many reasons. A doctor is needed to make diagnosis. I don’t think
a robot could make correct diagnosis as often as an actual doctor. I think that
to make some diagnosis there must be some ability to look at different
information and make a diagnosis. It doesn’t seem like a robot could be able to
interpret things such as bodily information, at least not for a long time in
the future. I do think robots could be used very effectively to complete surgeries.
Robots can make more accurate incisions that a human could never do. So I think
robots are going to be a very important part of most surgeries in the future. However
I think having an actual doctor in the room is going to be an important thing
for a while as well I think problems can still occur during surgery, even if
every part of the surgery is perfect. If a problem occurs will the robots be
able to assess the situation and fix the problem? That is why I think doctors
will not be replaced by robots. But it is great that robots can help with
making surgeries better and better.
Works Cited
Bates,
Clair. “Patient has prostate removed in world's first all-robotic surgery”.
Mail Online. Associated Newspapers LDT. 20 Oct 2010. Web. 10 Nov 2013.
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