Surgery Gets Smarter

Counter-Intuitive: The $400M Alliance and FDA Clearance Redefining Surgical Robotics

How J&J, Stryker, Medtronic, and Intuitive are carving up the soft-tissue market by venue, not just hardware.

Oct 13 • Adam Dawoodjee

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September 2026

The VISE Grip on MedTech: How Vanderbilt Out-Innovates the Giants

How a nimble academic powerhouse in Nashville is bypassing corporate red tape to build the future of surgery.

Sep 21 • Adam Dawoodjee

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The Endoscope Is Learning Where It Is

How researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are combining 3D vision, computer vision, and surgical navigation to turn the endoscope from a camera…

Sep 2 • Adam Dawoodjee

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August 2026

From Sword Swallowers to Flexible Scopes: The Evolution and Future of Endoscopic Surgery

From 1868 sword swallowers to 2026 VR technology, trace a 150-year journey through time as pioneers transformed endoscopy into precise modern surgery.

Aug 27 • Adam Dawoodjee

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Precision Without Borders: How SRS 2026 Showed Me the Next Era of Healthcare

Why the biggest hurdles in surgical robotics are no longer latency or hardware, but policy, training, and global adoption.

Aug 3 • Adam Dawoodjee

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July 2026

The 1990s UAB Duo That Retired Plastic Surgery’s Longest Incision

How Luis Vasconez and Grady Core brought endoscopic precision to facial surgery and permanently changed how surgeons approach the human face.

Jul 23 • Adam Dawoodjee

Dr. Watanabe and The Hardwood Twist That Spurred a Surgical Revolution

Inside the 1962 Tokyo Operation That Took Orthopedics From Medieval Butchery to a Modern Outpatient Miracle.

Jul 21 • Adam Dawoodjee

Jacques Marescaux’s Blueprint for Borderless Care

From Strasbourg to Kigali, how open research networks and multi-center mirror labs are democratizing high-tech surgical training worldwide.

Jul 16 • Adam Dawoodjee

Inside PNI’s Decade-Long Mission to Redefine Neurosurgery

Turning specialized keyhole mastery into a global export mechanism for low-trauma cranial care.

Jul 7 • Adam Dawoodjee

June 2026

UCSF Skull Base Lab: A Microcosm of Evolving Surgical Training

How immersive depth perception evolves surgical training from basic technical execution to real-time anatomical interpretation and decision-making.

Jun 23 • Adam Dawoodjee

From CyberKnife to Stereoscopic Depth: Inside Stanford’s NeuroTraIn Center

Extending classical microsurgical discipline into the digital age to master deep, confined cranial corridors before stepping into the OR.

Jun 17 • Adam Dawoodjee

William T. Bovie and The Spark That Changed Modern Surgery

The 1926 partnership that stopped the bleeding and saved the brain.

Jun 10 • Adam Dawoodjee