Medical Spotlight 4/26/10 "Robotic Gastric Bypass Surgery"
Published April 26th, 2010
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Its a type of surgery that's not hard to swallow...but gastric bypass procedures carry a certain amount of risk. Surgeons hope a robotic surgical procedure that has only recently been introduced to North Central Florida will make it safer.
In the Medical Spotlight , Jeff Rose, M.D. of North Florida Regional Medical Center explains to TV 20's David Snyder, why using the da Vinci robotic surgical system is the latest step forward in bariatric surgery, and why it might be safer than more invasive procedures.
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