Did you know that Dr. Wolf is a pioneer in robotic surgery? In the year 2000 he worked with leading robotic surgery industry and started robotic cardiac surgery!
On March 6, 2000, the following article was published by Forbes and written by Zina Moukhheiber. Because of copyright issues, only a portion of the article is cited here. To read the article in its entirety, please click on this link.
"Randall Wolf kicks off his shoes and sits down at a large, gray console. Peering into a binocular-like viewer, he adjusts the 3-D picture with a foot pedal. Grabbing two joysticks, he inserts his thumb and index fingers through their velcro straps.
This is no videogame. Wolf is a cardiac surgeon at the Ohio State University Medical Center and is about to perform a coronary bypass on a 48-year-old woman who is about six meters away. Her heart is still beating, and Wolf has already poked three 1-centimer holes into her chest to insert robotic arms. One is fitted with a miniature camera, the other two with graspers...
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