On Tuesday, April 2, we were the first hospital in Illinois to live-tweet a surgery, and the first ever to simulcast a surgery on Twitter and Facebook. The surgery was a hysterectomy, performed using the da Vinci robot. Our goal was to educate future hysterectomy patients on what happens during a robotic surgery, and what [...]

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The surgery that we simulcast on Twitter and Facebook has helped a lot of people better understand the benefits of our high-tech surgical robot and how Sherman Hospital has become a leader in advanced medicine. Possible candidates for surgery in our community followed along and became more comfortable with the procedure. Even the patient’s family [...]

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