Robot lends a hand to bariatric doctors

Patricia Horn can't remember a time when she wasn't heavy.

"I've always struggled with weight. I've been on diets all my life," said the 49-year-old Camrose, Alta., resident.

But nothing has worked, so the morbidly obese woman recently agreed to be the guinea pig for a state-of-the-art bariatric procedure being offered in Edmonton: robotic-assisted gastric bypass surgery. Click here for full article.