Instead, Dr. Rosser prefers laparoscopic surgery, a technique that relies on an ultrasmall video camera to help him manipulate long, slender instruments inserted into patients through small incisions. It is, he said recently, as his hulking 6-foot-4 frame loomed over a surgical simulator using instruments he designed, an elegantly efficient approach to repairing the human body.
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But in recent months, Dr. Rosser, who also goes by the nickname Butch, has been emphasizing a comparison he believes is more apt: video gaming.

The complex manual dexterity required to be a stellar video gamer and minimally invasive surgeon are strikingly similar, said Dr. Rosser, chief of minimally invasive surgery and director of the hospital’s Advanced Medical Technology Institute. More important, he is using video games to help develop and train a new generation of surgeons who may have unwittingly acquired an aptitude for laparoscopic surgery while wiling away thousands of hours playing Mortal Kombat, BloodRayne and the like.
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Last year Dr. Rosser was a co-author of a study that concluded that surgeons who played video games for at least three hours a week were 27 percent faster and made 37 percent fewer mistakes than surgeons who did not play video games.