Gamers make better surgeons

A study at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York found doctors who had played video games at least three hours per week made "37 percent fewer errors, performed 27 percent faster and scored 42 percent better in the test of surgical skills."

Following a study we reported on today that games don't actually lead to violent behavior, can we say games will help make better doctors? "Parents should not see this study as beneficial if their child is playing video games for over an hour a day," said Douglas Gentile, one of the authors of the study. "Spending that much time playing video games is not going to help their child's chances of getting into medical school." Gentile was also part of a survey in 2004 that found adolescents who play video games for an average of nine hours a week had a 94 percent chance of being aggressive, getting bad grades and generally being sloth like.

The prognosis here is that playing at least three hours a week makes you a surgeon, but around nine hours you'll end up becoming a blight to humanity. So, get your kids some Trauma Center, let them play it one hour every day during the week and call us in 20 years.