15 year old Xbox junkies to be performing surgery soon

by dmc68 | February 21, 2007 at 01:23 am

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Laparoscopic surgery, in which instruments and cameras are inserted into patients via small incisions, has played a key role in the development of minimally invasive surgery. But the technique involves a distinct set of skills, including reconstructing a three-dimensional environment from a two-dimensional projection, and manipulating instruments indirectly. The parallels between that skill set and gaming have not escaped the medical community, as evidenced a study that will appear in the Archives of Surgery later today.

A new field is being developed specifically for 15 year old gamers to encourage them to enter the medical field. Rumor has it the Surgeon General is negotiations with Microsoft to see if they will add a virtual operating room to Xbox Live as a way of recruiting gamers to perform surgery.
Hospitals have shown a great deal of interest in this concept as they see it as a way to not only cut costs but attract labor for free, in what up to now has been considered an extremely competitive segment of the nations workforce.