Playing Video Games Makes For Better Surgeons

Steve Wallach writes "ABC News on line is reporting that surgeons that play video games at least three hours a week make 37% fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and complete the surgery 27% faster than their non-video game playing colleagues. '"I use the same hand-eye coordination to play video games as I use for surgery," said Dr. James "Butch" Rosser, 49, who demonstrated the results of his study Tuesday at Beth Israel Medical Center.'"

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Re:attention span ?

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Just that since there aren't so many surgical procedures to practice on, playing games are a means of tuning the hand eye coordination.

Get a collection of Bush administration politicians to use for practice and experimentation. They're cheap, expendable, and they can't get much more screwed up than they are already.