Surgeons ‘are better after playing Nintendo Wii’

Trainee surgeons will soon be practicing operations from the comfort of their sofas after a study found they performed better after playing games on the Nintendo Wii.

US researchers are designing software that will allow doctors to carry out simulated surgery using the console’s novel control system.

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