Video Games & Surgeons

Alright so in 2002 there was a study that was taken with 33 surgeons to see how video games impacted their surgical procedures. 18 actually played video games in the past, 9 of those were 3+ hours a week. All the surgeons were required to play 25 min of video games during the time of study... which was from May till August. They all made approximately 37% fewer mistakes, became 27% faster, and were considered to be 43% better surgeons overall.

So surgeons that played video games in the past are preferred because of their increased hand-eye coordination, accuracy, & problem solving skills. Now even the military is doing this because...you know when it comes to shooting people...you kinda want to be accurate.

However...even though this is all fine and dandy...I have one thing to say...

YOU DAMN HYPOCRITES!!

Majority of video games that increase hand-eye coordination, accuracy, & problem skills are either from war games [killin' the Germans and whatnot] or Grand Theft Auto [killin' the hookers and whatnot.] Don't we dislike these games because they give our youth the impression that going out and killing people is a good idea?

How many studies have there been now that video games also cause violence and aggression? Do we really want aggressive & anger prone surgeons performing on patients? Like I really appreciate an aggressive surgeon that will go on a rampage because the nurse looked at him the wrong way while I was going through... I don't know... a heart transplant or something.

And who is the most impressionable of our society? Our kids.

And who becomes our future surgeons? Yeah... apparently our future isn't that important. As if a few I don't know some hundred thousand people actually matter in our society. Do me a favor and go to China with your surgery... I think they will appreciate the population decrease.

And I say that because many games allow you to have unlimited or a certain number of lives or in this case mistakes while going through a procedure. I don't want someone going Operation on me and continuously hitting the buzzer just because he has so many tries. Yeah... "Oh sorry seems I've punctured your stomach and let out all your digestive acids out into your other vital organs...don't worry! I still have 1 life left!"

Great.

But again I totally agree about military personnel being preferred to have played video games more often. We need aggressive people in our military, aggression is good especially if your being shot at, can't go that far with a touchy feely army. Can you imagine the US Marines as peace loving push overs? Yeah Americans won't go that far with it.

"Don't shoot me! We should go through counseling and give hugs, hugs stir good hormones to give love & spread peace around the world man!" ...Bang! *Dies* Bang, bang! *Just because.*

And I'd be more concerned for our kids learning how to control the world through interacting with war games. It's a interesting way to capture a history lesson, but then they know good military techniques, what didn't work in the past, what makes a weak nation, common things too look out for in a revolt and how to practically become a Dictator. Nice. Eventually the Americans are going to be trying to fight the Japanese for world domination. I prophesied it first! You all heard it from me!

This has all been "scientifically proven" of course. Video games have been "scientifically proven" to cause aggression, "scientifically proven" to create better surgeons, "Scientifically proven" to be very impressionable on our youth.

I personally think that the government should make penguins play video games, we need more aggressive penguins. You know... to help them protect themselves better from the evil humans...and whatnot...stuff like that. *Cough* Dictator Penguins Rock *Cough Cough*

Note: I personally believe that video games don't cause violence and it is the environment in which a kid grows up in that will determine if he or she believes that the games are truthful or not. But people tend to blame video games more so than parents because it is the easier solution. And who in their right mind is going to criticize a parent? And their child? *Gag*

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