And I thought playing the old board game Operation was launching my surgical career:

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (Reuters) - If Dr. James Rosser Jr. had his way, every surgeon in America would have three indispensable tools on the operating room tray:a scalpel, sutures, and a video game controller.

Rosser looks like a football player and cracks jokes like a comic, but his job as a top surgeon and director of the Advanced Medical Technologies Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York is to find better ways to practice medicine. At the top of his list — video games.

Surgeons who play video games three hours a week have 37 percent fewer errors and accomplish tasks 27 percent faster, he says, basing his observation on results of tests using the video game “Super Monkey Ball.”

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Let me take this moment to promote the fact that when I was in 7th and 8th grade, I did a science fair project entitled, “The Effect of Video Games on the Players’ Heart Rate”. I went to the state science fair in 7th grade. This story could have been about me had I continued my research. If only …