This morning while traipsing across the hospital I noticed signs announcing the new Da Vinci surgical system that had just arrived. The sign said that they would have the machine on display for demonstration in the hospital lobby this afternoon. My nursing students are on Medical/Surgical rotations and are rotating through the operating room. I thought they would be excited to learn about the new system so I snuck downstairs and asked the company reps if I could bring them by. Of course the reps are excited to talk about their product to anybody who will listen so they had no problem with it.
I arranged for the students to meet in the lobby for post clinical conference. They played with it for a few minutes and managed to complete the tasks of displacing and replacing a series of rubber bands on tiny cones in a matter of minutes. My one and only male student says, "That's cool, now what are we doing?" Another one says, "There's an app for that!"
A quiet Chinese student just stands staring, "This is the cool thing you wanted to show us? I'm shuddering as I picture all the video game geeks becoming surgeons."
Well, you win some and you lose some... I let them go home a few minutes early and I stayed the extra time to play with the "robot surgeon."
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