Are the hospitals making a return on investments with robotic surgery...time will tell more...training along with R and D is a huge part of the process...no doubt the patient gets a better end of the deal with smaller incisions and a shorter recovery time...interesting story with Dr. Moll...he had to quit his company and start up his own...finding his own backers along the line...same old story along these lines with 
finding people who have the talent of being a visionary to see where the technology will go and benefit all...block and mortar folks don't get it most of the time...stock began at $9.00 a share..now $290.03 a share...problem comes back around to funding for hospitals....with Medicare and insurer's cutting compensation, it makes it a real challenge...and dealing with non visionary individuals...and he has big fan in the urology area physicians...and robots have their occasional issues, like needing a reboot...this related story exposes a few the downsides, but overall few and not bad at all...compare it to use without robotics..they will probably start paying their way once robotic surgery becomes more mainstream in hospitals...and one more item to think about...this Dr. probably has no life....dedicated to improving health care through technology...a definite downside for the doctor I might guess...hard act to balance...BD
WHAT do you call a surgeon who operates without scalpels, stitching tools or a powerful headlamp to light the patient’s insides? A better doctor, according to a growing number of surgeons who prefer to hand over much of the blood-and-guts portion of their work to medical robots controlled from computer consoles.
Dr. Moll, 56, is a soft-spoken man who can look uncomfortable on stage. Yet his role in founding Intuitive Surgical, the company that now dominates the field, and his current involvement with three other robotics companies, has kept him in the sights of investors, health care providers and fellow entrepreneurs.He’s now best known as chief executive of Hansen Medical, a publicly traded robotics company focused on minimally invasive cardiac care. But he’s also an investor in and a board member of Mako Surgical, an orthopedics robotics company that recently went public, and he is a co-founder and chairman of Restoration Robotics, a start-up company focused on cosmetic surgery.
He says his immersion in the entrepreneurial life cost him his marriage; he remembers once telling his wife he was so busy he couldn’t talk to her for a month. But it also set him on a course to become a pioneer in the emerging field of medical robotics.
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