Since their adoption during the 1990s, minimally invasive surgical techniques have demonstrated postoperative surgical recovery benefits for patients. 

This comic invites readers to consider aesthetic and ethical intersections of how odds might be presented—even exaggerated—to cultivate fear in public health messaging. 

Several factors can persuade both surgeons and patients to choose robotic surgery over open surgery or conventional laparoscopy. 

Key unmet technological needs pertain to instrument size and adaptability secondary to the smaller pediatric robotic surgery market. 

This article suggests strategies for how to disclose the nature and scope of resident surgeon involvement in managing intraoperative care.

Robotic-assisted techniques demand enhanced team communication and feedback in operating room settings. 

This multipaneled comic follows a woman robot preparing for a breast examination. Oil “leakage” recurs in the comic, suggesting its ethical importance in metaphorically representing a patient’s stress responses.

More frequent use of robotic-assisted surgeries means we need to ask more questions about care quality and equity, informed consent, and conflicts of interest.

This article considers which risks AI-facilitated surgical robotics pose for safety, confidentiality, informed consent, and surgical training. 

Telesurgery is a form of global health diplomacy, and negotiations between LMICs and HICs can have transnational consequences.