The ad is for for a robotic surgical system called “da Vinci,” which, depending on whether you listen to patient safety advocates or sales reps and the doctors on their pad, is either a dangerous and expensive piece of crap or a state of the art high-tech instrument used to perform “minimally invasive” surgical procedures. The matter is that the ad, which ran in the New York Times Sunday magazine recently, “prominently featured a dozen members of the surgery team at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System,” was bought and paid for by the da Vinci company — as were, apparently, the Docs.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 04:13:40 +0000
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