[iancmceachern]

It does allow for improvements in surgical technique in some ways, it introduces severe limitations in other ways.

Many of the positives you highlight are true for any modern laporoscopic surgury, not just Da Vinci. In most indications, manual laparoscopy is by far the market volume leader for lots of reasons. Reasons like big surgical systems like Da Vinci are huge and require dedicated large ORs that are expensive. Meanwhile they still need to get surgury done in the smaller, more common, more cost effective ORs. Don't get me wrong, Da Vinci is a modern marvel, as I've said in other comments here it's truly a remarkable work of engineering. Its also a monopoly that makes a ton of money, and also far from how every surgery is done or should be done. Those two things don't go together, monopoly and shouldn't be the whole market. That's all I'm saying. It's not the panacea it's made out to be often.