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UK doctor refutes Sun's claim of '10 Wii injuries a week'

by rawmeatcowboy
23 December 2008
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If you want to get up to speed on what the doctor below is talking about, check out our original article. Long story short, The Sun reported that 10 people a week visited the hospital with Wii-related injuries. Now, the same doctor quoted in the original article has stepped forward to clean up the story.

“I have seen a few injuries related to patients using the Wii. I do NOT think its anything to do with the Wii itself, but rather the player over using the device. There is no epidemic- I used to see 3 or 4 injuries and over the last few months there have been 7 to 10. The quote about 10 people admitted to hospital is INCORRECT. 10 people have been seen recently in hospital clinics is the fact. Broomfield (hospital) doesn’t keep specific Wii stats, but we do have soft tissue rheumatism stats under which this type of injury belongs, and we haven’t seen a great rise.” - Dr. Dev Mukerjee, of Broomfield Hospital

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