Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 653: Surgical Robot

Of course, more importantly, surgical robots require less capability from doctors.

Most people often see news online that a lead surgeon has to perform many surgeries in one day.

The most important reason for this is that the work of most genius lead surgeons cannot be completed by other doctors.

To ensure the success rate of surgeries, each surgery can only be performed personally by this lead surgeon.

Even for some highly risky surgeries, patients generally only trust select doctors.

In some of the most famous hospitals domestically, some lead surgeons still get rehired even after retirement to continue performing surgeries.

Several famous lead surgeons were forced to leave the operating table only at the age of ninety.

Because they were too old to lift the surgical knife anymore.

After these doctors depart, their apprentices often rarely reach the same surgical skill level.

The main reasons for this, besides the doctors' rich experience, are their incredibly steady hands and precise eyes, which are physical gifts.

In Marvel movies, Doctor Strange became unable to continue practicing surgery directly due to an accident that left his hands unsteady.

This is also why it is so difficult to train lead surgeons.

But now, with surgical robots, there is a better solution to all this.

Surgical robots not only have more stable surgical knife control than humans but also possess high-definition imaging systems and microscopic cameras that can more accurately observe the surgical area and locate lesions.

This helps doctors overcome physical limitations like blurry vision and shaky hands, and it can also save doctors a significant amount of energy.

Take electrode implantation surgery as an example; traditionally, it might take 120 to 180 minutes to implant ten electrodes, while using a surgical robot only takes 40 to 50 minutes, or even faster.

Therefore, once surgical robots matured, they immediately gained a large-scale market.

Currently, the global market scale for surgical robots has reached over one hundred US Dollars billion and is expected to double in the next two to three years.

It is considered a very promising field.

However, most of the market share in this field is currently monopolized by a North American company, which alone has captured sixty percent of the global market share.

Apart from them, the other international competitors have at most ten percent of the market share.

As for domestic products, they are currently starting up amid difficulties.

After looking over these materials and gaining a rough understanding of surgical robots. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Chen Yiyang called the founder of a domestic surgical robot company named Jinfeng, Xu Jinfeng, and invited him to Lin'an to discuss investment issues.

Upon hearing the name Chen Yiyang, the other side didn't delay and directly took a flight to Lin'an to meet face-to-face with Chen Yiyang.

"Please have a seat." Chen Yiyang indicated for the other party to sit down.

He had his assistant pour a cup of tea for each of them before he began speaking.

"I've previously invested in two or three companies in the medical field, so I happened to see that you're also seeking investment."

"I've looked into it." Xu Jinfeng quickly said upon hearing Chen Yiyang's words, "You've invested in companies related to brain-machine interfaces and artificial blood.

However, those companies are involved in forward-looking medical fields. I didn't expect you'd also be interested in the field of surgical robots."

"Happened to come across it when reading materials one day."

After saying this, Chen Yiyang curiously inquired, "According to the materials I've seen.

Surgical robots have actually developed quite maturely, but why are they not commonly seen in everyday life?"

This is a puzzle for Chen Yiyang.

Because the advantages of surgical robots are indeed numerous.

Additionally, training traditional lead surgeons is difficult, and once trained, they are bound to be absorbed only by large hospitals.

Whereas surgical robots can be bought as long as you have the money.

Why are many hospitals still not equipped with surgical robots now?

"Because they're expensive."

Xu Jinfeng directly revealed the core reason.

The price of the most famous North American Da Vinci surgical robot ranges between eight million and twelve million US Dollars.

Moreover, this type of surgical robot can't perform all surgeries; it can only perform certain surgeries, and needs specially trained personnel to operate.

Just this cost alone is enough to deter many small hospitals.

Moreover, besides the purchase costs, there are usage costs.

If you count various consumables, the cost of starting up the Da Vinci surgical robot once is about thirty thousand US Dollars.

That is to say, no matter what surgery you choose to do, as long as you use a surgical robot, the baseline fee starts at thirty thousand US Dollars."

Understanding this.

Chen Yiyang instantly realized why surgical robots are rarely seen domestically except in large cities.

Doctors' salaries domestically are not considered high, and ordinary people have limited capacity to bear medical expenses.

More importantly, the startup fee of surgical robots and mechanical arm costs are not covered by insurance reimbursement.

That means even if the surgery you need can be reimbursed by insurance, the insurance will only reimburse the other expenses.

The thirty thousand US Dollars starting usage fee for the surgical robot has to be paid out-of-pocket.

This is something that some families can't bear.

Because if the surgery is performed by a lead surgeon, after insurance reimbursement, the total expense is just one to two US Dollars thousand.

But if a surgical robot is used, you have to pay at least an additional thirty thousand US Dollars.

Even if a small-town patient doesn't have a trusted lead surgeon at their hospital.

Adding one or two US Dollars thousand, they can invite a doctor from a large city to come for a freelance surgery to assist.

Therefore, hospitals in non-major cities domestically generally don't consider surgical robots.

Spending over ten million US Dollars to buy a machine, plus money for training operating personnel.

When it comes time for a patient to have surgery, upon hearing this price, they will definitely refuse the use of a surgical robot.

Then this machine worth over ten million US Dollars might only be used a few times a year, turning it into wasted expenditure.

"Actually, in tier-one hospitals in big cities, marketing surgical robots also faces significant resistance."

Xu Jinfeng continued to explain to Chen Yiyang the difficulties within.

"This resistance comes from within the hospital.

If the hospital chooses to buy a surgical robot costing over ten million US Dollars, it needs to mobilize all the hospital staff's special funds.

It is equivalent to all the doctors and nurses in the hospital collectively investing in such a machine.

But the machine can only be used in certain departments.

If patients choose to have surgery using a surgical robot, it can actually bring substantial revenue to the hospital.

Because the startup cost of surgical robots is not covered by insurance, the hospital can easily add some profit to the bill, and can entirely receive this payment.

But when the profit brought by surgical robots is distributed, it will be done according to the hospital's traditional practices, giving bonuses only to the departments that used the surgical robot.

This leads to many employees internally not supporting the hospital's purchase of surgical robots."