We have automated surgery, but anything involving the spinal cord is inherently risky. There's always the possibility that a hypothetical patient might not be comfortable leaving themselves in the hands of a machine, even if someone like me supervises the procedure.
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[ somehow he hasn't found out about this yet. and he's vaguely offended by it. ]
Right, uh. There isn't a machine that can just bam, swap broken spinal cord for a whole one?
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We have automated surgery, but anything involving the spinal cord is inherently risky. There's always the possibility that a hypothetical patient might not be comfortable leaving themselves in the hands of a machine, even if someone like me supervises the procedure.