Jewish General Hospital pushes envelope in robotic surgery

Robotic surgery — once a rarity  — has become so commonplace at the Jewish General Hospital that some surgeons now operate more often than not with the help of robotic arms during certain procedures.
A decade ago, surgeons at the Côte-des-Neiges hospital performed traditional open surgery in 90 per cent of gynecologic cancer operations, and in 10 per cent of cases they were assisted by robots. Today, that ratio has flipped, with surgeons performing 90 per cent of such oper