AI is coming to a hospital or doctor’s office near you in 2025(ish).
Robots will be promoted from surgery assistants to full-on surgeons. The first types of surgeries that are likely to be fully robotic will be prostatectomies, hysterectomies, cholecystectomies, kidney surgeries, and orthopedic replacement surgeries.
Robots don’t get tired. Robots don’t have relationship problems. Robots didn’t miss the training seminar on the latest procedures. Robots aren’t influenced by medical sales reps. Robots don’t have bad days.
Robots use smaller incisions, reduce blood loss, are more precise, always have access to the latest procedures, and have better vision. The result will be decreased recovery times, less complications, less postoperative pain, and an increase in positive outcomes.
All of that probably sits pretty well with the left side of your brain.
But what about the right side? How are you feeling about untethered robots messing around with your bits?
