But it's all coming in through one incision.

We'll make an incision just below the knuckle.

When I make an incision inside a patient's body, it's dark.

So we did this surgery with within an half inch incision.

If I make an incision here to try and remove one of the digits from his face...

This patient was a young female, we needed to reduce the length of the incision for cosmetic result.

And so I get to talk about robots the da Vinci robot put just that wrist on the other side of that incision.

So you can see through the abdominal organs on the patient's body surface before cutting the abdominal wall, so we can reduce the length of the incision line.

I know that the abscess that grew around my wound after the operation, the 16 ounces of puss, is the contaminated Gulf of Mexico, and there were oil drenched pelicans inside me and dead floating fish.

So what you need to do, to take the capability of your hand, and put it on the other side of that small incision, is you need to put a wrist on that instrument.

The era of the big surgeon, big incision had arrived, but at quite a cost, because they are saving lives, but not necessarily quality of life, because healthy people don't usually need surgery, and unhealthy people have a very hard time recovering from a cut like that.