The future of medicine is video games

A physician in Italy dons a VR headset before performing surgery. | Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images If you’re like me, and you grew up in a house where your mom refused to let you get a video game console, because she believed sitting and staring at a TV was bad for you, you might think of video games as antithetical to health. And there is plenty of research about the ways in which gaming too much can harm your physical and mental well-being. I don’t think anyone would argue that eight hours of Call of Duty every day is doing your body or your mind much good. But the old caricature of vi...

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