Robotic Surgery Linked to 144 Deaths Since 2000

The problem with this study is clearly stated near the end of the article:

> What Raman and co don’t discuss, however, is how these injury and death rates compare to procedures that take place without robotic techniques. Without that info, it’s hard to decide whether robots are making things better or worse.

Well, if they have published the stats based on the type of surgeon's life form, they should've also included races and genders of surgeons :-(.

A 99,5% of (robotic) success seems very impressive for any type of non trivial surgery.