Abscess, gov. Hurts something terrible.

But it's all coming in through one incision.

When I make an incision inside a patient's body, it's dark.

And so I get to talk about robots the da Vinci robot put just that wrist on the other side of that incision.

So what you need to do, to take the capability of your hand, and put it on the other side of that small incision, is you need to put a wrist on that instrument.

I know that the abscess that grew around my wound after the operation, the 16 ounces of puss, is the contaminated Gulf of Mexico, and there were oil drenched pelicans inside me and dead floating fish.

I know that the abscess that grew around my wound after the operation, the 16 ounces of puss, is the contaminated Gulf of Mexico, and there were oil drenched pelicans inside me and dead floating fish.

The era of the big surgeon, big incision had arrived, but at quite a cost, because they are saving lives, but not necessarily quality of life, because healthy people don't usually need surgery, and unhealthy people have a very hard time recovering from a cut like that.

David Landes likes to tell the story of Nathan Meyer Rothschild, the richest man in the world in the first half of the nineteenth century, dead in his fifties of an infected abscess. If you gave him the choice of the life he led as the finance prince of Europe or a life today low down in the income distribution but with thirty extra years to see his great grandchildren, which would he choose?