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Today's gamer,
tomorrow's surgeon?
Researchers hope video games
can attract youths to medical careers
AMNews staff. May
3, 2004. It started with a simple blip on a screen. James "Butch" Rosser Jr.,
MD, was introduced to the dawn of the video game era, and he was hooked.
"I started with Pong in the student union building at the
University of Mississippi [in 1973]. It just took off from there. I went through
Intellivision, Atari, and it went on and on."
Now a laparoscopic surgeon in New York, Dr. Rosser began
to wonder whether there might be a link between video game prowess and surgical
skills. He conducted a study that found physicians who played video games at
least three hours a week made 37% fewer errors in laparoscopic surgery than
those who don't play video games. Video gamers also performed their surgical
task 27% quicker than those who aren't players.
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