The Hanover Collaboration

I’ve been taking the bus to work and there is this commercial for the New England Baptist Hospital where they’re like, “we have this surgeon who is so good, he makes model airplanes in his spare time. ” Then he comes on and he is like, “Yeah I once made this model and it had 213 parts. It took a lot of precision but that’s what I like about it.” I thought it was kinda dumb.

But in the day of lapro- and arthroscopic and robotically assisted surgery, I could think of a much sweeter comercial.

Narrator: At some workplaces during lunch, people play ping-pong or jog. Here at NEBH our surgeons are honing their skills.
—muted gunfire, explosions—
N: Surgery today is more about moving joysticks and watching a screen. A recent study found that surgeons who played 3 or more hours of video games per week make 37% fewer mistakes than those who don’t. That’s why we mandated “Halo lunch-break.”
—more gunfire—
Surgeon 1: Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Surgeon 2: You fucking sniper rifle whore.
S1: I just finished your brain surgery.
S3: Just wait until I get a ranged gun you spawn hunting slut.
N: All of our surgeons are ranked in the 20s
S1: Try level 30, Bitchaz!
S4: because you’re a camper.
—Single gunshot—
S1: Did you hear what my rifle had to say about about that? What, you were dead before the sound got there?
—explosion—
S2: Oh! Did you hear what my sticky grenade just said? You had plenty of time to chat with it before it went off. Now where’s that fucking sniper rifle.
N: They’re serious about Halo because they’re serious about your health.