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*Everyone* needs video games before surgery
Most of all, the surgeons:
Surgeons who play video games three hours a week have 37 percent fewer errors and accomplish tasks 27 percent faster, he [James Rosser] says, basing his observation on results of tests using the video game Super Monkey Ball.
But the patients too. Perhaps they could play against each other, no?
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Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 24, 2004 at 05:56 AM in Medicine | Permalink
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