Ask Alisa M. Coker, MD, whether robotic surgery is a specialized practice or tool, and the surgeon will tell you the answer to the highly debated question is both. There are a variety of opinions among her colleagues.
Maybe not surprisingly, those who practice routine robotic surgery are more likely to see the potential for a specialized practice. Dr. Coker, an assistant professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in Baltimore, noted that she conducted an informal poll on