> The surgeon had never had any one-to-one training in using the device.
> The surgeon, Sukumaran Nair, was dismissed from the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle after it emerged he had turned down opportunities to train on the Da Vinci machine. Despite this, the doctor had vociferously lobbied superiors to be allowed to perform the mitral valve repair in 2015, the first of its kind with the aid of a robot in the UK.
Misleading title and article. Surgeons that are unfamiliar with new technology are blaming it when things go awry.
> The surgeon, Sukumaran Nair, was dismissed from the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle after it emerged he had turned down opportunities to train on the Da Vinci machine. Despite this, the doctor had vociferously lobbied superiors to be allowed to perform the mitral valve repair in 2015, the first of its kind with the aid of a robot in the UK.
Misleading title and article. Surgeons that are unfamiliar with new technology are blaming it when things go awry.