Human surgeons

TABLE 29.3 Complementary Strengths of Human Surgeons and Robots... 

Surgical manipulators are not always active devices. Often, the human surgeon provides some or all of the motive power, while the computer provides real-time navigational or other assis-... 

As pointed out by the author in a previous paper [4], it is unlikely that it will be acceptable for surgery assistant robots to simply have a safer track record tiian human surgeons. Where failures occur, the robot supplier is likely to be held liable. Similarly, if the surgeon uses a relatively autonomous piece of computer controlled equipment which fails, tiiere is less probability that patients will accept that surgery is risky and that the surgeon has done his best. Litigation is therefore more likely... 

Department of Health and Human Services. (1986) The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking—A Report to the Surgeon General. 

This book is dedicated in memory of my father, Dante Meucci, a surgeon of rare professional and human qualities who infused my three brothers and me with the passion for science, medicine, and caring for others and to my mother, Rosaria Rago Meucci for showing me the joy of discoveries and always supporting my choices. 

US Dept. Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking Nicotine Addiction. A Report of the Surgeon General. DHSS Publ. No. (CDC) 88-8406. Washington, DC Govt. Print. Off., 1988. 

US Department of Health and Human Services (2001). Mental health culture, race, and ethnicity - a supplement to mental health a report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD US Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 

Bath, to the effect that it is "more important to know what sort of patient has a disease, than to know what sort of disease a patient has." One of the most modern exponents of the same idea was George Draper, who founded the Constitutional Clinic of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 1916, and who with his collaborators published a book, Human Constitution in Clinical Medicine, in 1944.3... 

Recent research has focused on the privileged period of fetal scarless healing and development of in utero surgical procedures to repair human cleft palates early in gestation. To emphasize the significance of this research. Dr. Jeff Weinzweig, M.D. (plastic surgeon. Brown University, Providence, RI) stated ... 

Human cancers were much discussed by Galen and most medical commentators ever since, and dozens of hypotheses regarding the origins etiologies) of these diseases are recorded in the medical literature. A seminal event relevant to our present concerns about the environment occurred in 1775. A British surgeon, Percival Pott, published his observations on high rates of cancer of the scrotum among London chimney sweeps. Pott attributed the cancers to the soot with... 

In March 1962, Army Regulation 70-25 firmly reinforced the requirement to submit for review every detailed proposal for a human study, including the name of the responsible physician. The chief of the Edgewood labs would forward any proposal through the Surgeon General, the Chief of Research and Development, and finally to the Secretary of the Army. 

On 10 September 1975 LTG Richard R. Taylor, the Surgeon General of the Army, testified before Congress that, in October 1974, the Surgeon General established the Human Use Review Office under the direction of the Assistant Surgeon General for Research and Development. 

Army Medical Research and Development Command Contract Review Board and the Surgeon General s Human Use Committee and Clinical Investigation Committee, to insure uniform application of ethical standards for human research studies conducted within or sponsored by the Army Medical Department and other Army Agencies. 

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