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My name is Sylvia Ertel. I'm a general OBGYN and I practice at Community North. My practice's
name is Castleton OBGYN. I've been in practice here for about six years now.
Every patient is a good candidate for this kind of hysterectomy. Really the goal when
you do a hysterectomy is to do it the least invasive way possible. If you can't do it
vaginally, then either you are left to do it abdominally or laproscopically. Doing it
laproscopically with robotic assistance is better for the patient.
There is a quicker recovery time. With an abdominal hysterectomy, when you have an incision,
you have about a six week long recovery. With a laproscopic robotic hysterectomy, it's about
two to three weeks. I've had patients go back to work after two weeks, full time, to their
job. And I think that's a huge difference. There's less blood loss. You actually leave
the hospital a day earlier.
The last case that I did, the patient actually could have gone home the same day of surgery.
The nurses have been just amazed, on the floor, how well these patients do.
The main benefit to the patient with cost efficiency is that they're back to work earlier.
Most people take short term disability if they have a hysterectomy, and usually they
don't get paid 100% of their paycheck. So if you can go back to work earlier, then you
can get your regular paycheck back. In these days, people are having trouble. A lot of
people have dual income families, and they really need that extra paycheck.
I think it's important for women to know that this is an option for them. I think that the
word is not out about this kind of technology. I think it's important that everyone should
know they have this option available.