Thanks for your comments and back up studies. I come from the days when cardiac stents were just being administered. I knew many thoracic surgeons that were appalled by Dr Jackson (out of Kansas City) and his brazen attempt to take away their “cash cow”. I sat next to world famous Dr Norman Shumway, of Stanford and all he could say was, it’s malpractice to do that. Funny though; over the next 5 plus years, those same surgeons went back and did fellowships and became cardiologists placing stent after stent in the Cath Lab. Don’t be fooled, doctors like to make money. In this category, urologists love to do prostatectomies (in the fastest safest way possible). Medicine is a difficult ship to turn. In the US, we have the most stringent regulatory system in the world, FDA. EUA’s have given some relief and the Republicans seem to be more inclined to make 510k approvals move faster. But, back to your point, robotics will change medicine in the most dynamic ways. I know device representatives more capable of robotic surgery than most doctors. Will that mean technicians will one day be doing these surgeries? Insurance companies will push for that and hospitals will see more profit. Doctors will need to become diagnostic facilitators. I’ll be gone when that happens.