Dr. Samuel Yelverton, who has performed thousands of surgeries using the da Vinci Surgical System at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, is blunt when he talks about the importance of a hospital being up-to-date with technology.
Yelverton, a board-certified general, bariatric, and reflux surgeon in Lakewood Ranch, said he wouldn’t work at a hospital that didn’t have an advanced robotic-assisted system.
He knows other surgeons feel the same way. So he said it makes him proud that Universal Health Services, which owns and operates Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, continues to invest in such technology…