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Beyond video games: SJ hospital introduces kids to robotic-assisted surgery careers
It’s not every day that a teen gets to operate a robotic surgical device. On Monday, Dr. May-Anh Nguyen, a minimally invasive surgeon at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, helped guide Ivana, 13, a member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley, through a surgical skills exercise using the da Vinci surgical […] The post Beyond video games: SJ hospital introduces kids to robotic-assisted surgery careers appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Beyond video games: SJ hospital introduces kids to robotic-assisted surgery careers, It’s not every day that a teen gets to operate a robotic surgical device. On Monday, Dr. May-Anh Nguyen, a minimally invasive surgeon at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, helped guide Ivana, 13, a member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley, through a surgical skills exercise using the da Vinci surgical […] The post Beyond video games: SJ hospital introduces kids to robotic-assisted surgery careers appeared first on Local News Matters .
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