For capstone I chose an interesting subject, robotic Orthopedic surgery. I chose this because my uncle is an Orthopedic surgeon so I would already have someone I could interview. My uncle and I chose a time to conduct the interview. He suggested May, 4th at 8:30 p.m. I accepted this time but 15 minutes prior to the interview I pushed it back 15 minutes. I think that I was lucky that I interviewed my uncle because I didn’t have to introduce myself. My uncle had tons of great information. He kept on giving more and more information. I didn’t write down the information during the interview because I recorded it. I did this in order to not miss any information. Another reason I did that is because he talked so quickly. I couldn’t type that fast. I also didn’t want to tell him to pause, in case he would forget some information.
This is a link to the questions I asked and their answers.
I purposely made some closed ended questions because I had a plan for follow up questions. Whenever he would answer the question he always answer why. For some questions they were opinions questions. I would ask a question then depending on his answer I would ask a different follow up question. Somehow he would always know what the follow up question was. I think this was another way he was able to say a lot of information.
Some things I learned from the interview was you need multiple people to help during the surgery. All those people’s jobs are really important. I also learned that a robot can not put the patient to sleep with a gas mask or anesthesia. You need a person in the room to do it. I also learned a fact that blew my mind. My uncle told me that he does around 100 robotic surgeries per year and does robotic surgery 20% of the time. This means that he does 100 robotic surgeries and 400 traditional surgeries per year. This is the same as 500 surgeries per year!
My uncle helped me a lot and I learned so much, just from listening to him. I made 21 awesome questions, but I only ended up asking him about 15 of them. This is because there is the 15 question limit per interview. I also learned that the Orthopedic robots are used for checking traditional surgery.
I conducted my interview early and learned so much. Some of the answers I probably would not have found in my research. My uncle said that these were good questions and that I knew a good amount on this topic. I feel good about this topic and believe I will be able to do well in capstone. He gave me so much information it would take half a hour to say it all. I thanked him at the end. He said that if I wanted to ask him anything else or wanted another interview with him to get more information to just text him. He said he would either answer on the text or we will set up another time to interview. Then we logged off and I felt great. I felt like I was ahead of schedule. The interview took around 45 minutes to complete. I was glad I did the interview so early.
