Surgery students ‘losing dexterity to stitch patients’

Medical students are losing the abilities of stitching or sewing up patients because they are spending more time in front of a screen, said a professor of surgery. Professor Kneebone said that this is becoming an issue because students have good academic grades but they cannot sew or cut. He also says that these days students are able to leave medical school without being able to do some things. Students need to learn how to use their hands because with technology they are losing their abilities and in the future robots are going to take they role. A professor that teaches surgery said that…