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Surgical Precision: One doctor's quest to show how video games can save lives | Endless Thread

Surgical Precision: One doctor's quest to show how video games can save lives | Endless Thread

Update: 2025-11-02
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Dr. James "Butch" Rosser was a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery in the 1990s. When he credited his skills to video games, people dismissed him. The prevailing narrative was that kids who played vidoe games became killers, not doctors. So Butch set out on quest: to show how video games can help make better doctors.

https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2025/10/21/hidden-levels-video-game-surgery
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Surgical Precision: One doctor's quest to show how video games can save lives | Endless Thread

Surgical Precision: One doctor's quest to show how video games can save lives | Endless Thread