I was at the doctor’s office yesterday morning with my boyfriend, who had a septoplasty earlier this week.
What does that have to do with video games?
The doctor who performed my boyfriend’s nasal procedure, had mentioned during a previous visit that he had played the Wii at his cousin’s house over Christmas. This reminded me of the study that reported that surgeons who played the Wii before a virtual training test performed better than those who didn’t.
But that study had only eight surgical residents participating, so I decided to ask Dr. Nilesh Patel what he thought. “I think there’s probably some truth to that [study],” Patel told me after he removed plastic splints from my boyfriend’s nose. “Not just the Wii but any video game where it probably develops good hand-eye coordination. So, to that extent, it probably helps people.”