Not only have robots helped surgeons in minor surgery, but also they have assisted in life saving procedures. ... This procedure has now been used on over 400,000 patients per year in the United States and is now a worldwide method of heart surgery. Alan Menkis is a Professor of Cardiac Surgery of the University of Western Ontario in Canada and is also using the CABG procedure. He states, "It is obvious that the patients are the real beneficiaries of this new minimally invasive cardiac procedure. ... It has also been proven that using robots to perform a CABG has cut the surgical ti...

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The procedure for having an abortion up to 13 weeks is a surgical termination. ... The surgical procedure is minor and most women leave hospital the same day. The procedure for having an abortion up to 24 weeks is a medical termination. ...

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"One is vitro fertilization in which the sperm and egg are put together in a lab and surgically implanted in a woman's womb. When this procedure was first introduced, similar reactions followed as in cloning" (Andrews, 104). ... More research needs to be carried out to help eliminate any possible risks associated with the newly discovered procedure. ...

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While plants and lower forms of animal life have been successfully cloned for many years now, before Wilmut's announcement it had been thought by many to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed on higher animals. ... With in vitro fertilization, the sperm and egg are combined in the lab and surgically implanted in the womb. ...

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