Dr. Mani Menon

And if you can collaborate with Bertanghino, you might have a job. And I said, well, I called you thinking maybe you would come and do it. He said, I'm not going to do it. He said, And I said, why not? I mean, you're the father of laparoscopic surgery. He said, buddy, you can take a golf club and put it in any golfer's hands, and there'll only be one Tiger Woods.

And that Tiger Woods is Bertrand Guillot. So I got on a plane and went to meet Bertrand. And the short thing of this is I arranged for them to come down one week a month to do laparoscopic prosthetics, straight laparoscopy. And we would batch our cases. They would do them five days in a row, nine cases a week. And then we wouldn't do any for another three weeks. And they would teach me.

And that Tiger Woods is Bertrand Guillot. So I got on a plane and went to meet Bertrand. And the short thing of this is I arranged for them to come down one week a month to do laparoscopic prosthetics, straight laparoscopy. And we would batch our cases. They would do them five days in a row, nine cases a week. And then we wouldn't do any for another three weeks. And they would teach me.

And that Tiger Woods is Bertrand Guillot. So I got on a plane and went to meet Bertrand. And the short thing of this is I arranged for them to come down one week a month to do laparoscopic prosthetics, straight laparoscopy. And we would batch our cases. They would do them five days in a row, nine cases a week. And then we wouldn't do any for another three weeks. And they would teach me.

And it wasn't pretty. I really did not like doing laparoscopic surgery. But it also wasn't that pretty. when they did it, not to me. It was magnificent when they did it in Paris. It was not as good as I had seen Walsh do the open radical prostatectomies here. And the big difference was the BMI in body weight. The French patients had a BMI of 21, 22.

And it wasn't pretty. I really did not like doing laparoscopic surgery. But it also wasn't that pretty. when they did it, not to me. It was magnificent when they did it in Paris. It was not as good as I had seen Walsh do the open radical prostatectomies here. And the big difference was the BMI in body weight. The French patients had a BMI of 21, 22.

And it wasn't pretty. I really did not like doing laparoscopic surgery. But it also wasn't that pretty. when they did it, not to me. It was magnificent when they did it in Paris. It was not as good as I had seen Walsh do the open radical prostatectomies here. And the big difference was the BMI in body weight. The French patients had a BMI of 21, 22.

You put the laparoscope in and the prostate was begging to be taken out. whereas the Detroit patients had a BMI of 35. It was a struggle, just going through seven inches of fat on the anterior abdominal wall. And this became very apparent to me when Bertrand and Guy Valencian came.

You put the laparoscope in and the prostate was begging to be taken out. whereas the Detroit patients had a BMI of 35. It was a struggle, just going through seven inches of fat on the anterior abdominal wall. And this became very apparent to me when Bertrand and Guy Valencian came.

You put the laparoscope in and the prostate was begging to be taken out. whereas the Detroit patients had a BMI of 35. It was a struggle, just going through seven inches of fat on the anterior abdominal wall. And this became very apparent to me when Bertrand and Guy Valencian came.

Bertrand was an Olympic-level fencer, incredible athlete, and he stayed with me during this whole year when he was doing it. We would do two cases and he would just come home and collapse. Whereas I would see him in Paris and he would do three or four cases and would bicycle 15 miles to his home.

Bertrand was an Olympic-level fencer, incredible athlete, and he stayed with me during this whole year when he was doing it. We would do two cases and he would just come home and collapse. Whereas I would see him in Paris and he would do three or four cases and would bicycle 15 miles to his home.

Bertrand was an Olympic-level fencer, incredible athlete, and he stayed with me during this whole year when he was doing it. We would do two cases and he would just come home and collapse. Whereas I would see him in Paris and he would do three or four cases and would bicycle 15 miles to his home.

And Brassand essentially said, if I were an American surgeon, I would not have developed laparoscopic prostate. I mean, we are so lucky to have the people that we have. And then Barsan left for Memorial Sloan Kettering. And I had two choices, close the program or come up with something else. And the robot was there. I had seen it in Montsouris.

And Brassand essentially said, if I were an American surgeon, I would not have developed laparoscopic prostate. I mean, we are so lucky to have the people that we have. And then Barsan left for Memorial Sloan Kettering. And I had two choices, close the program or come up with something else. And the robot was there. I had seen it in Montsouris.

And Brassand essentially said, if I were an American surgeon, I would not have developed laparoscopic prostate. I mean, we are so lucky to have the people that we have. And then Barsan left for Memorial Sloan Kettering. And I had two choices, close the program or come up with something else. And the robot was there. I had seen it in Montsouris.

Guy Valencien had a mobile robot or a rotating robot for a week. And Valencien had asked me to sit down and do a little bit of the dissection. And I loved it. I thought while I was very sure I couldn't do a laparoscopy, I was pretty sure that I could do robotics. So I got the robot and we would run two rooms in parallel.

Guy Valencien had a mobile robot or a rotating robot for a week. And Valencien had asked me to sit down and do a little bit of the dissection. And I loved it. I thought while I was very sure I couldn't do a laparoscopy, I was pretty sure that I could do robotics. So I got the robot and we would run two rooms in parallel.

Guy Valencien had a mobile robot or a rotating robot for a week. And Valencien had asked me to sit down and do a little bit of the dissection. And I loved it. I thought while I was very sure I couldn't do a laparoscopy, I was pretty sure that I could do robotics. So I got the robot and we would run two rooms in parallel.

I would start the robotic case in one room, and in the next room, Bhatand would do a laparoscopic case with Jim Peabody and the residents. So it would be Tiwari and I doing the robotic case, and Bhatand and Jim and someone else doing the laparoscopic case. I could operate for about 20 minutes, and then the tension was too high.