From 'Halo' To The Hospital: Gamers Make Better Surgeons

Posted by Dev at 14:37 21/4/2004.

Not my usual place for gaming news but I found this interesting piece in the MTV News archives. The short news piece argues the case that gamers make better surgeons. Here's a snippet:

Doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make better surgeons, according to a report by researchers at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Institute on Media and the Family.

Specifically in laparoscopic surgery, which involves controlling very small cameras and tools inside the body with joysticks and a video monitor, gamers are more precise, making about 37 percent fewer mistakes, and work about 27 percent faster than their non-game-savvy peers.

So the next time someone calls you a geek for playing computer games just inform them your training to be a surgeon.

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Ripper
Rush!
14:33 21/4/2004
Will do [ Score: -1, pointless | Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
flicK
14:35 21/4/2004
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Dev
theb0g
14:37 21/4/2004

(This was an automated post)

Not my usual place for gaming news but I found this interesting piece in the MTV News archives. The short news piece argues the case that gamers make better surgeons. Here's a snippet:

Doctors who spend at least three hours a week playing video games make better surgeons, according to a report by researchers at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Institute on Media and the Family.

Specifically in laparoscopic surgery, which involves controlling very small cameras and tools inside the body with joysticks and a video monitor, gamers are more precise, making about 37 percent fewer mistakes, and work about 27 percent faster than their non-game-savvy peers.

So the next time someone calls you a geek for playing computer games just inform them your training to be a surgeon.

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JammaN
14:38 21/4/2004
interesting to know =D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
h0mes
14:44 21/4/2004
lol interesting [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
fez
14:48 21/4/2004
O_o [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Bard-
14:54 21/4/2004
Using joysticks!!! ffffffffhahaha noobs!!! get a keyboard and mouse! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Felon
15:01 21/4/2004
lol Dev, refreshing change actually to read this. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Demun
got:Game
15:10 21/4/2004
differnet [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Undone^
ForsakeN
15:23 21/4/2004
lol, notice the positive comments pre 3:30ish =D
different but interesting ;] [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dbz
15:28 21/4/2004
thx for that [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
jammin
15:31 21/4/2004
Theres hope of a career for you yet dbz you drop out scumbag:o) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Solid`
Choke
15:35 21/4/2004
lol interesting tbh :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Az
RemOte.uK
15:41 21/4/2004
can just see it now

"docter blames config for fatal operation" [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Zorro-
Clan [F]
15:42 21/4/2004
- so you want to be a surgeon kid ?
yes, im very good with a joystick 8}
- ok, here are your books, see you in 10 years [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
FragMentor
15:45 21/4/2004
this was on bbc news about a week ago [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
MaCcA^
15:47 21/4/2004
Joysticks are oldschool gamers tools! :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
prawn
15:54 21/4/2004
Good article that, nice find =] [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
PFCalcio
THX
15:55 21/4/2004
rofl Az -
'Doctor...you clipped his artery!!!'
'Bloody reg is appauling' [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
RaBB
16:04 21/4/2004
Good news for Ogg^ :D

GO Ogg^ GO GO GO GO Ogg^

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-Naz-
fightclubclan
16:09 21/4/2004
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllllshiiiiiiiiiiiiitt [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Wolfie
WanadooWolfie
16:16 21/4/2004
'Doctor...you clipped his artery!!!'
'Bloody reg is appauling'
more like 'OMFG THAT ARTERY HAD TO SPEEDHACK TO GET THERE' [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
16:16 21/4/2004
Nice to see a slightly different post here, with no flags too [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
tesko
16:18 21/4/2004
utter lies :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
flicK
16:19 21/4/2004
lol @ no reg [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
vip
Online Multiplayer Gaming
16:21 21/4/2004
wah i wanna be a surgeon so its all good playing cs then :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
HeaDBulB
16:24 21/4/2004
haha [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ReCoN^
16:41 21/4/2004
Wolfie thats about as funny as Michael Barrymore [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Farley
quintessential
17:15 21/4/2004
wow yet again a good news article is rewined by idiots and there battle of "whits". leave it out for once ...... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Farley
quintessential
17:15 21/4/2004
wow yet again a good news article is rewined by idiots and there battle of "whits". leave it out for once ......

Nice find Dev, pretty cool :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Crappy
Super Breasts
17:48 21/4/2004
So the next time someone calls you a geek for playing computer games just inform them your training to be a surgeon.

Hehe, I'm sure that wouldn't make you sound more like a geek at all :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Noah-
r4ngers
18:07 21/4/2004
im gonna be a surgeon too :D and my sister says playing cs wont get me anywhere ! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
dL
Atari.Crew
18:11 21/4/2004
thats unfortunate, as we all make sure to listen to what our sisters say [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Noah-
r4ngers
18:29 21/4/2004
obviously i dont listen but it still prooves her wrong :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
abom
18:35 21/4/2004
f***ing geeks [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Roar^
19:05 21/4/2004
Whits? more like half whits... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
flicK
19:45 21/4/2004
That's bullying. Take that back right NOW. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
p0ng!
21:17 21/4/2004
dev thats great :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Beta
21:49 21/4/2004
I gotta remember to say this information in my interview.

Hi i am a gamer, can i be laparoscopic surgoen
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Noah-
r4ngers
10:32 22/4/2004
naz its not bulls*** actually, it was on horizon a while back (i think) and i recently went to a medic info thingy where they said that playing video games helps the brain turn 2d images (ie a tv screen) into a 3d image which is what is needed for keyhole surgery etc :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
jammin
11:05 22/4/2004
Wonder if dbz can take 5 mins from his busy day of putting books away, saying "quiet please!!" and photocopying to gimme a smile:o) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
jammin
13:18 22/4/2004
Library must be closed today. He's obviously perfecting the art of imagining a 3d object from a 2d picture. In other words having a w**k:o) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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