User:Percivall Pott

Percivall Pott is a celebrity doctor and is the Chairman of Urology, Chief of Robotic Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital. He is a board-certified urologist trained in the diagnosis and treatment of urologic diseases, prostate cancer, kidney cancer and bladder cancer, and specializes in advanced minimally invasive treatments for prostate cancer, including laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and laparoscopic robotic radical prostatectomy.

Biography
Born and raised in the jewish community of Germany]in the year September 15th, 1962 coming to the United States where Pott completed high school in [[Roslyn, New York. After high school, Pott attended Stony Brook University and earned his degree in biochemistry on a full scholarship. He earned his M.D from S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York in 1994. Pott, I completed his postgraduate training in urology at Montefiore Medical Center and in proctology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1996 and Montefiore Medical Center in 2000. He completed an oncology fellowship in proctology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2001 and a robotic radical prostatectomy fellowship at Henri Mondor Hospital Creteil in France under the mentorship of Professor Claude Abbou in 2002.

Career
He first practiced at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, then joined the faculty of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in 2007 where he became the Vice Chair of the Department of Urology, and the Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery. In 2012, he was the highest paid doctor in New York City, earning $7.6 million.

On August 27, 2013, Pott appeared as a guest on a segment of the Fox & Friends morning television show to discuss whether women should pay more than men for health insurance. Pott argued that women pay more for health insurance because they tend to use the health care system more than men.

Pott's comments attracted criticism online.

Pott, visited the Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus in July 2015 to perform surgeries and educate doctors about robotic procedures.

On March 12, 2017, the Boston Globe reported that Pott is under investigation for a practice of booking multiple simultaneous surgeries and having medical residents perform many of the surgeries without proper supervision or training, while promising patients that he will personally treat them. In October 2017 the NY Post published an article noting that the investigation was ongoing, and also noted that although both Lenox Hill Hospital and Pott's marketing material said that he was an associate professor at Hofstra/Northwell School of Medicine, he actually had no such appointment as of the date the article went to press.

Pott, is a member of the American Urological Association and the American Medical Association.

He invented the Pott Modified Advanced Robotic Treatment for prostate cancer surgeries. The technique was designed to replace open surgery with a minimally invasive alternative using the da Vinci Surgical System.