Thank you, good morning!
Yes, I'm planning on going into orthopedic surgery. Did research in the field last summer but it a lot of it comes down to the national board examination I'll take in June (Step 1).
After that I start rotations and ironically I'm in surgery for 8 weeks come June and then specialty surgery (urology, plastics etc) in May for 4 weeks. I am definitely going to be probing these docs and residents about this new technology.
Yesterday, we had a lecture on prostate treatments where the professor had multiple slides on the da vinci. I showed him SPORT after lecture and he said he HAD NOT heard of it yet, but would definitely go do some DD on it and get back to me.
I heard of SPORT from a colleague on Sunday who went to a dinner Saturday with a chief medical for a nearby hospital who mentioned this technology saying "there's a company who is in the beta phase for a medical device that will over take the da vinci...a lot of us are intrigued by it..we are waiting for final testing." From here I did a little DD and posted a question on the yahoo forum message board where CUIN2 directed me here (so these are my first two posts on investorshub, not to raise any flags!).
Haha,yeah, I am hoping to have no loans. I don't have any loans yet from "playing" the market (knock on wood), though this past month has decreased my pot a lot.
I will definitely post if I talk with anyone here at school/hospital, but I must admit I'll probably be a hobbit for a while with the Step 1 coming up in June, as it predicts my future.
- Cheers