Danish Become A Pasting

Gary Schwitzer reports on the proliferation of robotic surgical operation inwards Denmark, inwards a publicly financed wellness help system.  He quotes Frederik Joelving, a Danish journalist:

“What’s interesting is that fifty-fifty though our healthcare arrangement is publicly funded, the evolution hither is largely parallel to what’s been happening inwards the US: With hospitals competing to cause got the atomic number 82 inwards robotic surgical operation as well as using dubious claims to marketplace pose the technology, it has directly perish virtually impossible to cause got an opened upwardly (let solitary traditional laparoscopic) prostatectomy inwards nigh parts of the country.

So far, Kingdom of Denmark — a province of 5.5 i G m — has bought da Vinci equipment for 44 i G m US$, as well as the reimbursement for each robotic surgical operation is betwixt 5000 as well as 10000 US$ higher than for the traditional approach. What’s more, all except i university-affiliated hospitals cause got stopped education open/laparoscopic prostate surgery. As i of my sources said, What happens when something goes incorrect during a robotic surgical operation as well as you lot cause got to convert?”

Noted Gary:

The global march of the robots continues.

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