Intuitive ‘Watered Down’ Robot Training, Lawyer Says
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Intuitive Surgical Inc. designed a training program to win regulatory approval for its surgical robots that was later “watered down” to get them into more hospitals, a lawyer for a woman suing the company told a jury.
The lawyer, Richard Friedman, made his opening statement yesterday to jurors in state court in Port Orchard, Washington, telling them the training Intuitive provided for the robotic surgery was compromised by aggressive marketing, led to errors in removing Fred Taylor’s prostate gland, and eventually caused his death.