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Doctors Medical Center sees historic robotic-assisted surgery
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Dr. John deGraft-Johnson is shown with the da Vinci robot, utilized at Doctors Medical Center in Modesto recently in a first of its kind minimally invasive direct vision coronary artery bypass graft done in the Central Valley. Photo Contributed
The majority of robotic cardiac programs in the USA only do one graft; Dr. deGraft-Johnson demonstrated a high level of mastery of the da Vinci surgical system and of the CABG procedure to do a total of three grafts.