Comments on: Update From SLS-2: Natural Orifice Surgery-The Somach Burstor from Alien is Hottest New Procedure- video of concept http://docinthemachine.com/2006/09/15/update-from-sls-2-natural-orifice-surgery-video-of-concept/ transforming medicine with tomorrow’s technology Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dog Crap Has No Business In Your Vegetable Garden. http://docinthemachine.com/2006/09/15/update-from-sls-2-natural-orifice-surgery-video-of-concept/#comment-94605 Dog Crap Has No Business In Your Vegetable Garden. Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:17:46 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/archives/31#comment-94605 [...] inside you. Yuck! Gives me the willies and makes me think that it would result in something out of Alien. Needless to say, you don’t want that near your prize [...] […] inside you. Yuck! Gives me the willies and makes me think that it would result in something out of Alien. Needless to say, you don’t want that near your prize […]

]]> By: Dog Crap Has No Business In Your Vegetable Garden. | This Garden Is Illegal http://docinthemachine.com/2006/09/15/update-from-sls-2-natural-orifice-surgery-video-of-concept/#comment-23546 Dog Crap Has No Business In Your Vegetable Garden. | This Garden Is Illegal Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:10:01 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/archives/31#comment-23546 [...] For example, dog waste may contain the eggs of roundworms. If you ingest one of those things, they might hatch inside you. Yuck! Gives me the willies and makes me think that it would result in something out of Alien. Needless to say, you don’t want that near your prize tomatoes. [...] […] For example, dog waste may contain the eggs of roundworms. If you ingest one of those things, they might hatch inside you. Yuck! Gives me the willies and makes me think that it would result in something out of Alien. Needless to say, you don’t want that near your prize tomatoes. […]

]]> By: Matt http://docinthemachine.com/2006/09/15/update-from-sls-2-natural-orifice-surgery-video-of-concept/#comment-768 Matt Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:46:08 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/archives/31#comment-768 Interesting post - it is without doubt setting the world on fire in terms of BUZZ. All the big companies are repositioning themselves (J&J with Endosurgery, PMI, Boston Sci) But the smaller start ups as always are getting in first and finding the applications - MINOS MEDICAL Inc claims to have systems for appendix, Gallbladder and interestingly hysterectomy. Very big applications indeed. I await developments with baited breath... Interesting post - it is without doubt setting the world on fire in terms of BUZZ. All the big companies are repositioning themselves (J&J with Endosurgery, PMI, Boston Sci) But the smaller start ups as always are getting in first and finding the applications - MINOS MEDICAL Inc claims to have systems for appendix, Gallbladder and interestingly hysterectomy. Very big applications indeed. I await developments with baited breath…

]]> By: New No Incision Surgery- Amazing Case Study of Procedure Looking For a Use » docinthemachine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/09/15/update-from-sls-2-natural-orifice-surgery-video-of-concept/#comment-65 New No Incision Surgery- Amazing Case Study of Procedure Looking For a Use » docinthemachine Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:11:37 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/archives/31#comment-65 [...] Cnn reports today from a national meeting of bariatric surgeons.  They describe a keynote talk of the future of non-incisional surgery called NOTES- that has NO REAL USE YET!  This is the Alien stomach buster operation I have written about.  This is an amazing case study on technology looking for a use in medicine.  Several meetings I have attended have been abuzz withtalk of how to use it and what is it s potential.  Just read between the lines of the CNN piece and you will see that neither the doctor nor the big medical equipment compnay has a clear use of the technology.  I know a surgeon on the medical advisory board of one of the big surgical compnaies who talked to me in the ER about this last week while we waited for lab results to come back on one of our patients. He talked to me of working in their lab trying to figure out a use for the technology. A leading general surgeon I have worked with is going onsabattical to travel to india to see what uses NOTES may have.  Just amazing all this hype and no clear use yet.  I eagerly wait to see if one will be found or if I can imagine one to invent…    « Air Force Developing Morphing Aircraft - Idea For New Surgical Tools |   [...] […] Cnn reports today from a national meeting of bariatric surgeons.  They describe a keynote talk of the future of non-incisional surgery called NOTES- that has NO REAL USE YET!  This is the Alien stomach buster operation I have written about.  This is an amazing case study on technology looking for a use in medicine.  Several meetings I have attended have been abuzz withtalk of how to use it and what is it s potential.  Just read between the lines of the CNN piece and you will see that neither the doctor nor the big medical equipment compnay has a clear use of the technology.  I know a surgeon on the medical advisory board of one of the big surgical compnaies who talked to me in the ER about this last week while we waited for lab results to come back on one of our patients. He talked to me of working in their lab trying to figure out a use for the technology. A leading general surgeon I have worked with is going onsabattical to travel to india to see what uses NOTES may have.  Just amazing all this hype and no clear use yet.  I eagerly wait to see if one will be found or if I can imagine one to invent…    « Air Force Developing Morphing Aircraft - Idea For New Surgical Tools |   […]

]]> By: Michele http://docinthemachine.com/2006/09/15/update-from-sls-2-natural-orifice-surgery-video-of-concept/#comment-8 Michele Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:34:53 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/archives/31#comment-8 Wow...sounds amazing! After a tease like that, you have to give us more insight into the market forces that are affecting the development of this medical procedure. It's funny...even now, I have this image of medicine as somehow above the market forces that manipulate it. But your post reminds me that doctors have to exist in an environment that demands profitability for procedures and instruments, not just medical efficacy. Great post. And I am totally digging your blog, DITM!! Michele Wow…sounds amazing! After a tease like that, you have to give us more insight into the market forces that are affecting the development of this medical procedure.

It’s funny…even now, I have this image of medicine as somehow above the market forces that manipulate it. But your post reminds me that doctors have to exist in an environment that demands profitability for procedures and instruments, not just medical efficacy.

Great post. And I am totally digging your blog, DITM!!

Michele

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