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Surgeon does outpatient robotic prostate surgery

New procedures shorten hospital time, aid in recovery

Brent A. Sharpe, a physician with Northeast Georgia Urological Associates, explains how the fourth generation of the Da Vinci robot is used during surgery Thursday from an operating room at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Braselton. Sharpe has performed than 550 standard robotic procedures. - photo by Erin O. Smith

1001SURGERY 0003 — Brent A. Sharpe, a physician with Northeast Georgia Urological Associates, explains how the fourth generation of the Da Vinci robot is used during surgery Thursday from an operating room at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Braselton. Sharpe has performed than 550 standard robotic procedures. - photo by Erin O. Smith

Victor Bedzyk, a retired White County resident, looked as he said he felt — “pretty well.” He was the subject for the state’s first outpatient robotic prostatectomy Aug. 30. His prostate was removed because of cancer.