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Video Games Help Surgeons

CNN reports today on how playing video games is helping doctors learn skills they need for laparoscopic surgery: Doctors were measured on their performance of the “cobra rope” drill, a standard laparoscopic training exercise used to teach how to sew up an internal wound. Researchers found that surgeons who played video games immediately before the […]

CNN reports today on how playing video games is helping doctors learn skills they need for laparoscopic surgery:

Doctors were measured on their performance of the "cobra rope" drill, a standard laparoscopic training exercise used to teach how to sew up an internal wound.

Researchers found that surgeons who played video games immediately before the drill completed it an average of 11 seconds faster than those who did not.

All I know is if a doctor ever has to go poking around my insides with a stick, I want him to have played at least thirty hours of Elite Beat Agents just beforehand.