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Dr. Mani Menon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
366 total appearances

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BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

I don't see that happening at Sinai, where Tuareg is dealing with Wall Street bankers and high-powered attorneys and New York Yankees players and things like that, and everybody wants a fifth opinion and a sixth opinion before they do that. I don't know that I would see it at UC San Diego. But it certainly happened in Detroit.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

And I want to reach out to these people who worked under very difficult circumstances, under very trying economic conditions, but they had faith. They had faith in their physician doing what they thought was right. And I guess some of them, they liked the idea that I wasn't exposing the cancer to it.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

And I want to reach out to these people who worked under very difficult circumstances, under very trying economic conditions, but they had faith. They had faith in their physician doing what they thought was right. And I guess some of them, they liked the idea that I wasn't exposing the cancer to it.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

And I want to reach out to these people who worked under very difficult circumstances, under very trying economic conditions, but they had faith. They had faith in their physician doing what they thought was right. And I guess some of them, they liked the idea that I wasn't exposing the cancer to it.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

It's a mode of life. I did not train them to do the greatest number of cases or write the greatest number of papers. I tried to tell them to take care of their patients and be kind and decent and generous with their time. and I've learned from the people. I mean, my boss is somebody whom I had trained, and I mean, I've told you about all the bosses that I've had problems with.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

It's a mode of life. I did not train them to do the greatest number of cases or write the greatest number of papers. I tried to tell them to take care of their patients and be kind and decent and generous with their time. and I've learned from the people. I mean, my boss is somebody whom I had trained, and I mean, I've told you about all the bosses that I've had problems with.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

It's a mode of life. I did not train them to do the greatest number of cases or write the greatest number of papers. I tried to tell them to take care of their patients and be kind and decent and generous with their time. and I've learned from the people. I mean, my boss is somebody whom I had trained, and I mean, I've told you about all the bosses that I've had problems with.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

This boss I don't have a problem with, and it isn't that I changed. It's that he's just a good human being.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

This boss I don't have a problem with, and it isn't that I changed. It's that he's just a good human being.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

This boss I don't have a problem with, and it isn't that I changed. It's that he's just a good human being.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

No, no. I don't go to the OR, so I guess there's less chance of a wow and an interesting there. The thing that I am frustrated about were two of the last things that I did in robotics which haven't caught on. You know, we first did prostatectomies and it took four or five years, but as you said, that's now become standard of care.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

No, no. I don't go to the OR, so I guess there's less chance of a wow and an interesting there. The thing that I am frustrated about were two of the last things that I did in robotics which haven't caught on. You know, we first did prostatectomies and it took four or five years, but as you said, that's now become standard of care.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

No, no. I don't go to the OR, so I guess there's less chance of a wow and an interesting there. The thing that I am frustrated about were two of the last things that I did in robotics which haven't caught on. You know, we first did prostatectomies and it took four or five years, but as you said, that's now become standard of care.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

Well, then I was told that you can do prostates, but there's no point in you doing kidneys, and it should either be done open or laparoscopic. Well, now laparoscopy is true, but most of the difficult cases that you do with a robot, most people won't be able to do laparoscopically in fear of any cable thrombus and so on and so forth.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

Well, then I was told that you can do prostates, but there's no point in you doing kidneys, and it should either be done open or laparoscopic. Well, now laparoscopy is true, but most of the difficult cases that you do with a robot, most people won't be able to do laparoscopically in fear of any cable thrombus and so on and so forth.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

Well, then I was told that you can do prostates, but there's no point in you doing kidneys, and it should either be done open or laparoscopic. Well, now laparoscopy is true, but most of the difficult cases that you do with a robot, most people won't be able to do laparoscopically in fear of any cable thrombus and so on and so forth.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

I may have done the first robotic inferior vena cava thrombus in the world, level three thrombus, or level two, two and a half thrombus, together with Rani Abaza. And that's now accepted in places other than Memorial Sloan Kettering. And then we took the robot and went to Mansoorah so that we could learn how to do robotic cystectomies. I did a cystectomy a day, 15 days in a row,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

I may have done the first robotic inferior vena cava thrombus in the world, level three thrombus, or level two, two and a half thrombus, together with Rani Abaza. And that's now accepted in places other than Memorial Sloan Kettering. And then we took the robot and went to Mansoorah so that we could learn how to do robotic cystectomies. I did a cystectomy a day, 15 days in a row,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

I may have done the first robotic inferior vena cava thrombus in the world, level three thrombus, or level two, two and a half thrombus, together with Rani Abaza. And that's now accepted in places other than Memorial Sloan Kettering. And then we took the robot and went to Mansoorah so that we could learn how to do robotic cystectomies. I did a cystectomy a day, 15 days in a row,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 189 Legends of Urology: Origins of Robotic Surgery with Dr Mani Menon

where the Egyptian surgeons were doing an open cystectomy 15 days in a row, and then we compared data. We did that, and that's been successful. I mean, Peter Wickland, who is here, has done over 600 radical cystectomies in New York, at Sinai, in addition to the thousands he's done in Europe. But there were two things that I tried which have worked technically but have not caught on.