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Surgeons of the surgical team of Swiss professor Philippe Morel, Head of visceral and transplantation surgery and Chairman of the department of surgery of the University Hospital Geneva, performs an operation on a patient with the robot da Vinci, at the University Hospital Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, November 13, 2008. The University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) opened a department for robotic surgery, where between 50 and 80 surgeons from around the world will have the possibility to train with the robot da Vinci each year. (KEYSTONE/Salvatore Di Nolfi)