I don't own one, but...owie

From cnn.com: Last month, in an American surgical first, doctors at the University of California, San Diego, removed the appendix of a 24-year-old patient through her vagina. Surgeons Santiago Horgan and Mark Talamini made a small incision in the wall of the patient's vagina, through which they passed surgical tools and a small camera to the appendix, removing the organ through the same incision.

Three thoughts:

1. Note to surgeon: don't sneeze.
2. I'm well aware how small cameras can get nowadays, but I can't help visually associating a "small camera" with a regular disposable one. Then I have to go lie down.
3. The organization these surgeons are members of? Natural Orifice Consortium for Assessment and Research, or NOSCAR. Where's the S, you say? I don't know. (Maybe they rented the leftover S from 1-800-MATTRES.) Looks like NOCAR to me, and I presumed that went without saying; I don't care which orifice they're digging through to pluck your appendix, there had better not be a freakin' car in the operating room.

For the entire article, click here. It sounds like an improvement over conventional surgery, but still...I think I need more time to not think about it.

Comments

[eighmie]

I don't know, I suffered thru a terrible surgery that left a scar that looks a bit like a smiley face along the bottom of my abdomen, and I have to say, a small incision in my vaginal wall and laprscopic surgery would have been preferable to the bleeding smiley face the day after my surgery when some nurses aid got me out of bed too soon, unfortunately, laproscopy was not a reality when I had my surgery. I would think this kicka all kinds of ass over the traditional methods. I'm just saying.

Then again, I am looking forward to a three year follow up colonoscopy this and five year follow up mamogram, so my view of medical procedures may be a bit skewed. And no I can't say if I'm excited about these things or not, but it's pretty cool getting to know your insides.