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My name is Daniel Moon.
I'm a surgeon, and I work at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne.
I deal mainly with men and women who have conditions that
affect the urinary track, and more and more we're using
robotic technology to help us treat these people.
Robotics allows us to do these operations without having to
make such big cuts.
Robotics will take us inside the abdomen, inside someone's
belly, through little keyholes like this.
So we make five or six small cuts like so and through each
of those cuts, we pass a camera down
into someone's belly.
And then the other cuts, we pass instruments down, and
using robotics allows us to control
these with great precision.
We have a camera system that actually has two telescopes
inside the camera so that we have a picture for each eye.
It's like looking at IMAX with three-dimensional glasses.
We now have 3-D vision in high definition digital picture
which means we have the best picture possible of the
diseases we have to remove and the parts of the body that we
have to preserve and rebuild.
Now it's like operating a very fancy remote control car, that
I'm on the other side of the room, with the best possible
vision through this camera system, and using my little
wrists, so my fingers and thumbs go in rings and I can
then move around the abdomen to be able to do the procedure
that I need to do.
It really is like someone has taken you, shrunk you, and put
you inside someone's belly, with very small hands, to be
able to do a very meticulous or very precise operation.
Here we have the machine itself.
It's wheeled over to the patient who is
asleep on the table.
These are called ports.
They go through the skin and that allows us then to pass
the camera and our two wires down inside the abdomen.
These instruments, you can see, are really quite small.
That will act like my wrist, but look at the
difference in size.
So now I can perform really fine movements with great
magnification given to me by my two eyes here.
I think this technology is going to continue to have a
significant impact on people's health and the way we manage
diseases in the future.
Already, even in 10 years, this has now set the standard
for outcomes for surgery.
We now understand anatomy or the inside of the body better
than we have been done before.
We have very advanced ways of teaching
surgeons now how to operate.
And we can operate on patients with the least possible pain,
blood loss, complications, and get them in and out of
hospital quicker than we've ever been able to do before.
It's really exciting to be at the forefront of this type of
technology, that allows us to be the best possible surgeon
we can and to perform operations we never dreamed we
could perform.