Robotic Surgery's Third Wave | T. Sloane Guy, MD, MBA | TEDxFairfieldUniversity

Innovation Inspired by Adversity - Robotic Surgery's Third Wave. From the battlefield to the operating room, a new perspective on surgery. Dr. Guy attended Wake Forest University on an Army ROTC scholarship. He earned both an MBA in healthcare administration from the Wharton School of Business and his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. During active duty in the U.S. Army, Dr. Guy served three tours as a trauma surgeon in Afghanistan and Northern Iraq. From his tours, the Army recognized Dr. Guy with many awards including the Combat Medical Badge, Combat Action Badge, and the Bronze Star. Dr. Guy is a real-life “Hawkeye Pierce” and learned the lessons that wartime surgical experiences give a young surgeon very quickly.

[chrisstian]

Dr Sloane Guy is one of the best and most experienced cardiac/thoracic surgeons. Even if you don't need robotic surgery and require a full sternotomy...he is the one to consult with. Speaking from experience...he saved my life.

[DDL-nu]

I need to have my Mitral Valve Repaired (hopefully I'm a candidate like my mom was) and Dr Guy has basically the most respect of anyone in this field.

[speckofdust]

It was wrong to insult Theodore Billroth as he was talking relatively in 1880-90s . Also laparoscopic Surgery wasn’t pioneered in 1989 remember the Gynaecologists we’re doing laparoscopy routinely before them and in fact Kelling did it in 1901 in dogs and Jacobaeus did it in humans in 1910 so accuracy of history is helpful .

[TN-jbjk]

Epic - The old guard telling you some procedure is impossible.
Answer - question everyone and never take no for an answer.

[rickr]

Ultimately I think robotics will enable less skilled surgeons and surgeons no longer in their prime to achieve consistently good results. Looking further down the road I think we'll see even more of the human hands taken out of the equation, with the robot being able to autonomously perform many skilled operations, and the job of the human becoming to guide the robot through an individual's unique anatomy and oversee. There should be more teamwork as well. Instead of one surgeon performing the entire job it would be more efficient to have teams with specialization in certain subtasks of the procedure to reduce overall surgery time as well as cut down on human fatigue.

[mateenahmed]

Learnt so much,
Bundle of thanks.
Great info :)