Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 07, 2024

I believe that about surgeons playing video games. Improves their finer skills, maybe

…unless the trauma occurred during an earthquake, inside a building that collapsed piece by piece.

There were several studies done in the early day of video games (when the games still required a “joystick”) that showed that puzzle games such as Tetris helped with eye / hand coordination

Some would rather play with a Cavity Samantha.

Video games do sharpen the mind, that’s for sure!

Many Ukraine Soldiers “decompress” by playing an FPS where they shoot monsters…

I wonder if the PTSD thing still works if they play the “Monty Python quest for the Holy Grail” video game that has a tetris-like game called “Drop Dead” where corpses are dropped in tetris shapes while a voice claims “I’m not dead”, “I feel fine”, “I feel happy”.

Maybe the music to the original that becomes an embedded earworm is part of the therapy

At least the doctors can work on their reflexes playing the whack-a-mole like game “Spank the Virgin”

Somehow I don’t think video games are a substitute for medical school

What kind of parent would name their child Cavity? A dentist?

RN pilots used to claim they needed to play computer games to improve their hand-eye co-ordination. I suppose it could be true of surgeons too.

Yes, but exactly what types of surgery do game-players excel at? Arrow extraction, post-mace reconstruction, lance run-throughs? Complete disintegration from explosives?

The relevant question is how common are game-injury surgeries?

Well, OK, Watts, Compton, yeah, I get it.

“Okay, I’ve guessed Wordle in four. Now let’s get cuttin’!”

Sam got that nickname in prison where he was the king of the cavity search.

Digging out the classic on the classic NES! Some hospital, somewhere, has an operational one (mine sure is!)?