Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG)

Having had personal experience with the DaVinci robotic system from ISRG 2 years ago when I had a robotically-assisted radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer which took only 90 minutes, resulted in a single over-night stay in the hospital with essentially no post-operative pain, a return to work three days after the surgery, and now two years later what looks like a complete cure with no significant residual problems with urinary incontinence or sexual dysfunction of any kind, I am a complete believer and, per Peter Lynch, also now a shareholder, in ISRG.

I expect and firmly believe that the many technical advantages of robotically assisted surgery will lead to the widespread adoption of the DaVinci system in the months and years to come as the surgical approach of choice in numerous areas where it is not routinely used currently.

This, of course, will result in enormous sales of the robotic systems to hospitals that wish to remain competitive and on the cutting edge(no pun intended), and ever increasing sales of support services and consumables a la the Gillette razor blade model.

The only question I have re: ISRG is how fast and to what extent it will grow and what the implications of this growth will be for the value of the stock. My opinion, based on personal experience and the many untapped opportunities that remain in the surgical world for minimally invasive surgery to be fully and beneficially implemented, is that the growth of the company and the value of the stock will be phenomenal for years to come.

Go ISRG! Help more and more patients have more effective and less traumatic surgery with better outcomes and you will make your shareholders very happy as you do.