Mario-itis
Posted by Ben on April 7th, 2004
When I was a kid, I’d play video games at a friend’s, since my parents wouldn’t get me a Nintendo. When we’d play for hours, our thumbs would get sore, a condition we called “Mario-itis” (yep, I was a geek back then, too).
Turns out that maybe Mom and Dad should’ve gotten me one:
Video Games Enhance Surgical Skills
All those years on the couch playing Nintendo and PlayStation appear to be paying off for surgeons. Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.
Buy your kids a video game, and they might become doctors one day. If you don’t, they go on to do despicable things like food engineering 
April 7th, 2004 at 11:50 pm
And just think… you could have become a rich doctor and taken care of us in our old age. Well, I won’t make that mistake again… I’ll buy them for the grandkids =)