LONG ISLAND DOCTORS PERFORM 1ST ROBOTIC MASTECTOMY, BREAST RECONSTRUCTION IN US

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NEW HYDE PARK, Long Island - Doctors at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center have performed the nation's first-ever double mastectomy and breast reconstruction with the precision help of a robot.

This weekend, they used the DaVinci robot to perform the first robotic nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) in the United States.

The patient, 45-year-old Elodie Trouche, tested positive for the potentially life-threatening BRCA gene in 2015 and searched for surgeons who would perform the mastectomy and reconstruction robotically. A nipple-sparing mastectomy is a procedure that preserves a woman's entire breast, including the existing, natural nipple and areola.

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Good, now is this going to bring down the cost of plastic surgery?

Most of the benefits of plastic surgery are out of reach for most Americans due to the huge costs. Maybe this technology will cut the cost of doctor labor. Next up let's import doctors from India and Cuba to compete and bring down the costs for surgeons and doctors. It's about time they compete with foreign labor and technology just like the rest of us.

[Loki Liesmith]

2. Robots have breasts?

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3. Ha Ha

That is sumthin else 😛