Last weeks program was provided by Rotarian Karen Kerr. Karen’s guest speaker was Dr. C.R. Hall, MD. C. R. Hall, MD is Board Certified in General Surgery. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, summa cum laude, at Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. Dr. Hall served his internship and completed his residency as Chief Administrative Resident at the Ohio State University Medical Center. He continued on there as Assistant Professor of Surgery and completed a fellowship in Minimally Invasive/Bariatric Surgery which included training in Robotic Assisted Surgery. Dr. Hall is the Director of Robotic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery at South Florida Baptist Hospital. There is scheduled to be more than 500 robotic surgeries at SFBH this year. The most common surgeries being Gall Bladder, Colon/rectal and Hernia operations. SFBH’s goal is to provide the best care for the patient and robotic surgery meets this demand with robotic surgery being used for over 90% of minimally invasive surgeries. The da Vinci® Robotic Surgical System provides an alternative to both traditional open surgery and conventional minimally invasive surgery, putting a surgeon's hands at the controls of a state-of-the-art robotic platform. The da Vinci Robotic Surgical System enables surgeons to perform even the most complex and delicate procedures with unmatched precision through very small incisions.
Types of robotic surgery offered include; Colorectal robotic surgery, Gynecological robotic surgery, Thoracic robotic surgery, Prostate robotic surgery, Urologic robotic surgery, General robotic surgery and Pediatric robotic surgery.Potential benefits of robotic surgery may include: Less pain, Minimal blood loss, Less scarring, Fewer complications, Shorter recovery time and A faster return to normal daily activities. With the da Vinci Surgical System, surgeons operate through just a few small incisions. The da Vinci System features a magnified 3D high-definition vision system and tiny wristed instruments that bend and rotate far greater than the human hand. As a result, da Vinci enables your surgeon to operate with enhanced vision, precision and control.
The da Vinci System represents the latest in surgical and robotics technologies. Your surgeon is 100% in control of the da Vinci System at all times. da Vinci technology translates your surgeon’s hand movements into smaller, precise movements of tiny instruments inside your body. Dr. Hall and Karen Kerr, brought in a Robotic da Vinci system for us to try…seems a lot easier that it is! -provided by Mike Ardnt
Club News
Rotary Community Appreciation Day
The date has been set for this year's Community Appreciation Day. It will be held Sat. August 4th from 10:30 am to 1:30 Pm. Plan now to help out with this great event. The next committee meeting will be held Wed. July 18th at 5:30 pm at the Holiday Inn on Park Road. All club members are invited to attend this planning meeting.
The annual meeting of members of Plant City Rotary Foundation, Inc. will be held at our regular meeting on July 23. All members of the club are also members of the foundation. Please plan on attending this meeting.
Kayla Drawdy is the new Program Chair! Please notify Kayla of you upcoming speakers.
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from DG Nick Hall
THE POWER OF WORDS
If, in response to a customer’s inquiry about a medication, a pharmacist responded by saying, “There are other newer drugs, but the one your doctor has prescribed was one of the first discovered and has helped thousands of patients”, it will be more effective than if the response were, “Your doctor must have graduated from medical school at the turn of the last century. There are many newer options available, but this is what he wants you to have so I have to give it to you.” This is but one of many examples from Placebo research of how the choice of words can impact health.
Words can inspire, but they can also discourage. They can both heal and kill, as well as sooth and provoke.
When used appropriately, the written or spoken word constitutes the most powerful tool a Rotarian has to
inspire and guide a club to success. We are people of action. However, what magnifies that action is a spirit of
cooperation existing across political, cultural, and geographical boundaries. Whether we cooperate or
compete can also be influenced by words as demonstrated with a game called, The Prisoners’ Dilemma. At various points, two players are given the opportunity to either compete or cooperate. However, neither player knows what the other is planning. Depending upon their independent decisions, the result can be either a big gain or loss. As part of an experiment, just before the game started players were read a list of words associated with either friendly cooperation (fair, share, equal etc.) or with aggressive competition (renege, win, betray etc.). The outcome? After hearing words associated with cooperation, there was more cooperation during the game. Those words associated with competition, resulted in more competition. Yes, the pen can sometimes be mightier than the sword!
So why don’t all people cooperate and maximize the probability of success? After all, the prefrontal cortex is a part of the brain whose job is to remind us to think things through before taking action. It helps dampen self-destructive emotions so we are not blinded by anger or fear. Unfortunately, when people are under duress, that part of the brain can short circuit.
Financial difficulties or being passed over for promotion are events that can sometimes result in losing the ability to be rational. Consequently, a bad choice of words with embarrassing and irreversible consequences may result. Or as Abraham Lincoln observed, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt”.
