A professor of surgery says students have spent so much time in front of screens and so little time using their hands that they have lost the dexterity for stitching or sewing up patients.
Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education at Imperial College, London, says young people have so little experience of craft skills that they struggle with anything practical.
"It is important and an increasingly urgent issue," says Prof Kneebone, who warns medical students might have high academic grades but cannot cut or sew.
"It is a concern of mine and my scientific colleagues that whereas in the past you could make the assumption that students would leave school able to do certain practical things - cutting things out, making things - that is no longer the case," says Prof Kneebone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46019429
Now let's all get over the amusement at the name Prof Kneebone and deal with the real problem. Young people can't use their hands very well.
I can completely see how the reduction of education in things like music and crafting will reduce a persons agility with their hands, especially when spare time is spent mostly with touch screens and the like.
What say you NSG? Can you sew on a button? Patch a bleeding aorta?
