As the US population ages, it’s going to need more surgeries—but those rolled into operating rooms across the country might find themselves face-to-face with a robot rather than a human surgeon in the not-so-distant future.
Unfortunately, the United States is suffering from a surgeon shortage. According to a report by the American Association of Medical Colleges, the country is going to be short 10,000 to 20,000 surgeons by 2036.
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Maybe if medical school wasn’t so expensive, all those people with steady enough hands and sharp enough minds to be surgeons would be able to afford an education. Instead, we’re training surgical robots to be better at their jobs. They’re like us learning how to make brownies on YouTube, just with a person’s life on the line.
Robotic surgery has been helping flesh and blood surgeons for years, but the new training is working to take it up a notch….
