Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

846.754 - 876.376 Dr. Mani Menon

It was mainly in kidney stones, you know, very, very little in cancer. There was no PSA testing. So, you know, Pat Walsh had done 12 radical prostatectomies in the year that I was the chief resident. Most of them were spectacular, but some of them, there was a lot of blood loss with that. And it was kind of unpredictable, at least to me. I think 40% of all that we did at Hopkins was kidney stones.