Hospital Shoot

I assisted the amazing photographer Joshua Curry (joshuacurryphoto.com) yesterday on a photoshoot at a local hospital. It was actually pretty fun, a long 12 hour day but definetly worth it. We photographed just about everything that goes on in a hospital. Doctors, Nurses, New born babys, CT scans, releasing a patient, and an amazing surgical robot call the davinci. We actually had to get suited up before we could go in the room with the Davinci which made the day a little more interesting. Here is a brief explaination of the robot.

"The da Vinci System consists of a surgeon’s console that is typically in the same room as the patient and a patient-side cart with four interactive robotic arms controlled from the console. Three of the arms are for tools that hold objects, act as a scalpel, scissors, bovie, or unipolar or dipolar electrocautery instruments. The fourth arm is for an endoscopic camera with two lenses that gives the surgeon full stereoscopic vision from the console. The surgeon sits at the console and looks through two eye holes at a 3-D image of the procedure, meanwhile maneuvering the arms with two foot pedals and two hand controllers. The da Vinci System scales, filters and translates the surgeon's hand movements into more precise micro-movements of the instruments, which operate through small incisions in the body."

So its a pretty intense machine, but its really phenomenal. It cuts multiple weeks off of recovery time and leaves minimal incisions. It was a great day and I learned a lot, definitely one I wont forget.

Heres a photo of us all dressed up.                                      This is a picture the da vinci robot