Showing posts with label surgeons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surgeons. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2008

What, two blogs in one day?...Someone must be bored at work.

Actually, I have a ton of shit to do. I just don't want to do it. There is NOTHING going on here today, which means I will probably leave soon.

I found this while looking at Engadget:

Wii used to hone surgeons' fine motor skills (click to read full story)

Now either this is a very genius idea or a very bad and scary idea. I mean I have played a lot of Wii games and I could see how this could be useful. My father, an Orthopedic Surgeon, has even played with a Wii and mentioned something along the lines of seeing this rigged to be used for "practice surgeries."

I would like to play with the Wii attachments they came up with for this though.

Don't get me wrong, this could be a great idea, however I would not want a doctor who was about to perform surgery on me to tell me something like "Don't worry kid, I just performed this surgery on the Wii and I got a 97% score." That would totally make me feel comfortable. If they do tell their patients something like that, I recommend they wait until the patient is already sedated on the operating table and counting backwards from ten.

Here is a link to the story on The Wall Street Journal.