Give your kid a PS3

// February 21st, 2007 // Uncategorized

Because they may become a surgeon (medpagetoday.com):

Surgeons who played video games at least three hours a week in their past were 27% faster, with 37% fewer errors, in simulations of laparoscopic surgery than nonplayers, reported James C. Rosser Jr., M.D., of Beth Israel Medical Center here, and colleagues in the February issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.

Among the 33 residents and attending physicians in Dr. Rosser’s Top Gun Laparoscopic Skills and Suturing training program, those who currently played video games committed 32% fewer errors and were 24% faster than nonplayers.

Who would have thought that a 400 dollar gaming console that everyone thought was going to fry the brains of our generation would have an impact like this?

Now if only those doctors could figure out the real life equivalent of up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A start.