The Impact of Technology on Surgery: The Future Is Unwritten

Mario Morino, MD

Disclosures

Annals of Surgery. 2018;268(5):709-711. 

In This Article

Abstract and Introduction

Introduction

The relationship between surgery and technology represents a major issue for the future of our profession. Several new technologies are proposed to surgeons and introduced into the clinical practice every year, in many cases after a very limited evaluation. The clinical and economical consequences of this phenomenon and the role of surgeons in managing it represent one of the major challenges we are facing.

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