You’ve possibly seen the results of this study already. Apparently, doctors who spend three hours a week playing video games make fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their non-video game playing counterparts. Presumably so they could get back to playing that damn addictive video game. The only downside is when things do go bad, some of the surgeons had a tendency to pick the patient off the operating table and throw them against the wall, before resetting all the monitors and starting over with a fresh patient. Sure, the study shows an improvement in eye-to-hand coordination. That’s a no brainer. Two hours with Metroid Prime: Hunters and you’ll have tweaked your eye-to-hand coordination to a level good enough to land an Airbus. What it doesn’t measure is the effect of eye strain. Before surgery, always ask your surgeon if he has a serious Visine habit.

As for performing surgery faster, do we even want the surgeon racing against a clock? Seriously, take your time. Doctors have been known to amputate the wrong leg even when working slowly. This is no Super Mario Speed Run. I don’t want to wake up in the recovery ward to a conversation along the lines of “Yo, Jason, I nailed that gall bladder procedure. 17 minutes and 30 seconds. That’s my second personal best this week. Pretty sure I closed every incision, but I may have dropped a bandage somewhere near the small intestines.”