>Actually, think surgery. Many procedures (try 400,000 a year) are robotic now. This doesn't put anyone out of a job currently and has absolutely zero in commo

>Actually, think surgery. Many procedures (try 400,000 a year) are robotic now. This doesn't put anyone out of a job currently and has absolutely zero in common with the ECGs, CTs, and and ultrasounds mentioned before. As far as I know, robotic cases require the same amount of personnel to perform. Typically the people you need for robotic cases have more specialized knowledge and additional training (sold by da Vinci I imagine), not to mention the technical people da Vinci needs to hire for maintenance which wasn't going to be supplied by the hospital anyway. Cab and Uber drivers should be scared of driverless vehicles because there's a proof of concept that exists, but unless something has happened in the past 2-3 years, I really don't think a proof of concept exists for automated surgeries or automated support personnel for surgeries.