The majority of urologists performing radical prostatectomy in developed populations are doing so with robotic platforms. Since adopting this approach, many of us have observed that our patients appear to have less pain and recover more rapidly. If we are brutally honest with ourselves, we have all probably lowered our bar for accepting patients for surgery on the basis of overall health because they seem to handle robotic-assisted surgery better than open surgery. In my own practice, for patients not willing to consider radiotherapy and were frail by my own subjective assessment, I would routinely send these patients for a review by one of my internal medicine colleagues who is by training a geriatrician and has developed a special interest in perioperative medicine. Almost always, these patients were then being cleared for surgery and gradually I have found that I am operating on more of these types of patients apart from just older patients.