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> The world of medicine would be transformed

Look I know I'm being obtuse, and a Dingus, but I'm so tired of the silly hype.

It wouldn't transform the whole world of medicine. It would maybe change a small part of specific surgeries.

I've never had an implant surgery and I do take pills and other medicines daily.

It would affect implant surgeries, it would not affect my vitamin d pill.

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Agree. For example I’ve had 3 surgeries in the last couple of years. It would not affect/improve any of them. In one, robotic surgery[1] was used but they needed to take stuff out rather than put new structures in. In the other two, keyhole surgery was used and they needed to cut/grind stuff away rather than add something new. It might well be that certain surgeries would be significantly improved but not all.

[1] https://www.intuitive.com/en-us/products-and-services/da-vin... this is the thing they used, which is a genuinely amazing gadget and reminds me of the Hokkaido mission from “Hitman”.

It's got 3 minute papers vibes. What a time to be alive!!!

I've seen what appear to me to be far less deserving papers get the same kind of perhaps excessively exuberant hype, but in this case, it's not looking quite that far off the mark, IMO

Maybe this will lead to a new kind of surgery that will allow you to stop taking pills.

How? This paper is so far off from anything like that. This kind of blind optimism is part of what gets to me.

Eh, are you sure? I don't think you can say it so decisively. I am not saying it will be a direct result - but one of the steps.

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