To the Editor:
[Re: “Randomized Trial Pits Laparoscopy Against Robot for Ventral Hernia,” December 2019, page 1]
As a surgeon and early adopter of robotic surgery some 10 years ago, I am having an increasing problem in tolerating the rhetoric of the invented controversy over “laparoscopic” versus robotic surgery. In our hospital, robotics is used around the clock and on weekends as needed. All OR staff know how to do the setup, and it is used judiciously for appropriate