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[Justin Bailey]

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,66086,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- If Dr. James Rosser Jr. had his way, every surgeon in America would have three indispensable tools on the operating room tray: a scalpel, sutures, and a video game controller.

Rosser looks like a football player and cracks jokes like a comic, but his job as a top surgeon and director of the Advanced Medical Technologies Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York is to find better ways to practice medicine. At the top of his list -- video games.

"Traditional academic surgeons look at what I do and thumb their noses," Rosser said at the first Video Game/Entertainment Industry Technology and Medicine Conference, sponsored by the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, or TATRC, in early December.

Surgeons who play video games three hours a week have 37 percent fewer errors and accomplish tasks 27 percent faster, he says, basing his observation on results of tests using the video game Super Monkey Ball.

 

[mr2mike]

If that's the result with monkey ball, surgeons that train with Virtua Fighter 4 must be aweeeeesome!!!

 

[Deleted member 1235]

fuck dudes I unlocked master levels on both games..

where can I get cheap scalpels? I wouldn't even charge for first time customers.

 

[Mejilan]

Amusingly enough (and quite on topic) I was reading an article on CNN (I think) last week about how some doctors keep a GBA on hand to give to patients right before surgery in order to calm them down until the anesthesia kicks in. Apparently, when there's a GBA in their hands, all of the anxiety they should be feeling just goes away, even when on the operating room table.

Nifty.

 

[explodet]

(too obvious?)

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Rosser looks like a football player and cracks jokes like a comic, but his job as a top surgeon and director of the Advanced Medical Technologies Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York is to find better ways to practice medicine. At the top of his list -- video games.

Reggie has gone undercover!

Surgeons who play video games three hours a week have 37 percent fewer errors and accomplish tasks 27 percent faster, he says, basing his observation on results of tests using the video game Super Monkey Ball.

You should hear the whines from these guys, though, when they don't lose a single patient and yet earn no unlockable for 100% completion.