Thanks to the assistance of machines, surgeons carry out less invasive operations for the patient.
In 1966, in the film The Fantastic Journeyscientists board a miniaturized submarine to reabsorb a blood clot in a patient’s brain. Today, reality is perhaps no longer so far from fiction. Last June, the start-up Endiatx launched clinical trials on its Pillbot robot pill, a real miniature submarine, equipped with a propulsion system and capable of detecting ulcers and tumors. Robot pills could soon remove tumors or perform biopsies in a quasi-non-invasive way for the patient.
Although these pills are still at the experimental stage, the robots are already fully integrated into the hospital. They assist doctors in precise surgeries or help patients with neurological diseases regain mobility. So, faced with these robots which are gaining skills, what new relationship with the doctor? To answer this question in the second…
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