100% video documentation of one’s surgical procedures offers many benefits to the surgeon in particular and science in general. Advantages: After the surgery, you can play the video and observe yourself as a detached third party, identifying your weaknesses, and mistakes. This helps you to become a better surgeon. A detached third eye, observing from a distance, helps you to identify the various issues that happen during the surgical procedures, and helps you to properly audit your systems, methods and procedures.
This helps in shortening the surgical time, and designing an optimum protocol and procedure for subsequent patients. After proper editing, sub titling, and a voice over commentary, these recordings become invaluable teaching aids for surgeons from subsequent generations. Speeded up, and trimmed to short videos, these become aids to show the patient the actual procedure,…