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Byline: Alan Bavley
KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ The three metal arms of a million-dollar robot twitched restlessly over Judy Verhage's chest, snipping and sewing and fixing a faulty valve in her heart.
No need to crack open her chest. The surgical instruments were inserted through three small incisions. No need even for a surgeon to stand over her holding the instruments. That was the robot's job.
Verhage's heart surgeon, Scott Stuart, was seated several yards away in a corner of the St. Luke's Hospital operating room, his head buried in the viewfinder of a giant console. As he concentrated on a 3-D video image of the interior of Verhage's heart, he ...