Surgeons admit to mistakes in surgery and would use robots if they reduced the risks

How good are humans at performing manual surgery? 

We asked 93 surgeons in Australia with a range of experience how often they observed unintentional damage occurring during a knee arthroscopy procedure. The survey was anonymous and the results have been published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery. 

Half the surgeons said unintentional damage to articular cartilage, which is the tissue that covers the end of your bones that make up your joints, occurred in at least one in ten procedures. Incredibly, seven of the surgeons (7.5%) said such damage occurred in every procedure carried out.

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