Yes, robots to the rescue!
Caveat: I did not read the article.
"A looming U.S. surgeon shortage—projected to reach up to 19,900 unfilled positions by 2036, per AAMC data—is set to collide with an aging population and frequently crumbling rural healthcare infrastructure. Rural communities face the sharpest edge of this predicament: 136 rural hospitals closed between 2010 and 2021, leaving 60% of non-metro counties lacking adequate surgical care in 2019. Proprio is among the companies addressing this shortage with robotics.
Advances in surgical robotics continue apace, leading to systems that can increasingly perform precise tasks with minimal human intervention. For instance, researchers at Johns Hopkins and Stanford universities recently demonstrated that imitation learning—drawing on video recordings and approximate kinematics—enables robots to handle tasks like tissue manipulation, needle handling, and knot-tying with high success rates. ..."
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