- Brain Surgery has been happening anywhere from 5,000-10,000 years ago with patients outliving surgery
- Bronze Age: Surgery was merciless and more of a public spectacle
- 1847: Aneshesia was introduced, but as more infection arose
- New innovations using sterile instruments dramatically reduced infection
- 1980's had new camera technological advances that allowed surgery to occur through several small incisions
- The DaVinci Robot in the 1990s let major surgeries to occur through these small incisions with more precision and with more easily usable instruments
- Limitations: Money and Training.
- A brand new instrument has been innovated that goes into a single small insision using a tublelike instrument that has 3 tools and one camera inside
- New instruments and dyes have been produced that allow surgeons to better find cancer and their paths within the body.
- These New Surgeries leave you intact, competent, and fully functional
HHMI: Cancer interview with Dr. Bert Vogelstein
- Born and Raised in Baltimore, choose medical school after grade school because of his affinity for math and science.
- Researches Cancer in a lab
- he enjoys experimentation in the lab more than pratical medical work
- has 3 kids, loves to play raquetball and talk about himself
- Choose to become a researcher because he tried treating patients but found that researching diseases was what he better enjoyed.
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