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When we look at nature, it is like we’re looking at a work of art.

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The introduction of minimally invasive surgery, in the form of laparoscopic surgery, was made available in the country in 1993.

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Russian police say they have arrested a surgeon who stole some of the heroin he had been called on to extract from the stomach of a suspected drug mule.

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The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries in America last year — triple the number just four years earlier.

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EA, a 48-year-old businesswoman, has been in denial that she has a myoma diagnosed since 1994.

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You’d think robotics in surgery was just a scene in a science fiction movie.

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