Like many people, I have always been squeamish about entering a prison or a hospital. When Dr Mahendra Bhandari, Director Robotic Research and Education, Vattikuti Urology Institute at Michigan-based Henry Ford Hospital, suggested that I watch a computer assisted surgery using a Surgical Robot (SR) as part of my recent assignment with Vattikuti Foundation, I put up a brave face to be inside an Operation Theatre (OT). Wearing a blue scrub - a sterile gown - a face mask, and a cap on the head and slipper covers, I was happy that I walked into the OT, as opposed to being wheeled into one on a stretcher, in a 1,000-bed hospital in a South Indian city. As I entered the OT, a clinical specialist...
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