Will Robotic Surgery REPLACE Human Surgeons? #shortsfeed #trending

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Now, you trained in robotic surgery at Advent Health in Orlando. You brought the fourth generation chief robotic system to Mumbai.

[00:00:08]For a patient lying on that table, doc, what is genuinely different in precision and recovery and outcome between a laparoscopic procedure done by a master like Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala and the same procedure done robotically?

[00:00:22]Is the robot in some ways a story we're selling more than a revolution we're living? Uh you know, recently I read an article that says that robots are being oversold.

[00:00:33]So, I'll tell you the honest truth that certain places robots are irreplaceable.

[00:00:38]Like in prostate surgery or in thoracic surgery where your hands cannot do the various turns. Your instruments cannot bend. Laparoscopic instruments also cannot bend. So, it's it's the precision that gives Robo in my mind also equates the skill sets between a brilliant surgeon and an average surgeon. Because especially with suturing, the hand tremor stops. It gives you that much 3D precision of going and dissecting. Yes, it is a little bit more expensive, but it's not meant for everybody. So, for simple surgeries like you could say for gallbladder surgeries or for simple hernia surgeries, it might not make the difference. But yes, for advanced hernia surgeries like some of these recurrent hernias and all, the dissection that you get with a robo is far, far superior.

[00:01:28]The other thing that the robo will add in the future is training.

[00:01:34]I can sit on a slave robo or a master robo and my assistant could be operating on a slave. So, when we teach surgeons, I could take over and prevent him from actually doing complications. Or through 5Gs of through the internet, like the other day I sat at JWC and operated a patient at Nagpur.

[00:01:54]It gives the option of an expert sitting miles away operating on a patient in probably rural India. And that's why I'm so excited about it because when these robots become cheaper and better, you'll have someone from rural India who cannot travel get the expertise of a brilliant surgeon sitting in one of the metros in India. So I think it's exciting times.

[00:02:17]The further we go down the robotic journey, it will also make our lives so much easier as as surgeons. You'll have AI coming. So you'll have structures like CT scans and MRI machines incorporate onto your vision.

[00:02:31]It'll mark the vessel, the nerve, the um lymph node which has got cancer cells all marked out. So I will be guided by computer vision to go and just remove that much part and save all the important structures. And as we go towards more precision surgery, I think robotics will be here to stay.

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