A report by Polygon reveals that doctors are beginning to use video games to prepare themselves for surgery. Doctors at Florida Hospital Celebration Health are playing the GameCube classic Super Monkey Ball 2 not long before their first incision, citing research that shows the doctors become “more efficient” and are able to “suppress errors” if video games are played before they perform surgery. The hospital has even set up an area in the physician’s lounge that houses some ready-to-play games for the good doctors. No word yet on whether the sword-wielding gameplay of Skyward Sword increases the surgeons’ precision with a blade.
That’s pretty awesome.
If I was a doctor, I would play Ninja gaiden!!!!
you’re a freak
And you’re a Papaya.
HEY!! Papaya’s are freaking delicious! XD
Pizza Hut Man.Lmao
Relevance? Pizza hut is delicious!!! But I get it very rarely.
No offence but I wouldn’t go to you for a surgery…
Although I would send Xbots to you…
*wink*
I think my first surgeon played mortal combat, and heard the words “Finish Him!!” D: Explaining how my ribs got so fucked up!
hahaha!
I got Shoryuken’d with a scalpel :(
LMAO
Ahh, this is cool. I fucking love the GameCube.
They should also play the marble minigame from Twilight Princess!
If they play Trauma Center on the hardest difficulty, they’ll begin to wonder if real surgery was ever that hard.
Do they also learn how to stop time? Only the best doctors can do it.
+1
YOU SMELL OF SHITTTTTTT
Not in this world though…
This is weird and awesome at the same time lol
Clever skyward sword joke. Great game though!
What!? They’re not playing Surgery Simulator 2013? I thought for sure that was the most accurate sim to hone your skills.
Well….Good luck to the people who are talking surgery’s in Florida :/
Also, Skyward Sword…Not a bad idea :p xD
Monkey Ball is an excellent choice for precision. Trauma Center, I heard as well, but I think that game would fail to relax the surgeon as it should. It may also cause psychological harm to an actual doctor, especially in the higher difficulties where failure is expected many times before success. It overlaps too much with what we trust our lives to – their ability to make sound judgments in good time.
you won’t see something like this in the news on tv. That would be counter productive to their anti games agenda.
Precisely. It’s scientific law that video games are made to kill people, not save them! ;P
Next I’m guessing they’ll play Trauma Centre. ;)
Our empire and the Segans, helping the world to become a better place unlike the evil brainwashing enslaving Xbots and Sonyans the Illusionists…
the kinect helps surgeons too
To kill patients…
So long as they play the easier levels of Monkey Ball 2; the later ones will only make them want to cut up more things than they should.
I’m studying medicine and i really like this new i have always think that we (gamers) have better reflects and we can act faster :) (im not english excuse my english)
Fuck yeah, GameCube power to the max. I can just see Dr. House suggesting something like this with a straight face.
Lol HACK N’ SLASH WITH A SCALPAL!!!!!
They should also play Labyrinth, that irritating board game with the ball and the maze… so much skill is needed for that.
and without touching the borders
must be a black dominated hospital not who want to ensure my life
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I think they just use video games to clear the doctor’s mind of stress before doing a proceedure rather than improving their skills.
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