Why I . . . play video games

Abstract

Jamie Sherrington talks to Kathy Oxtoby about how video games give him some escapism from his busy medical roles Jamie Sherrington is a GP at Okehampton Medical Centre in Devon who also works at children’s hospices in Devon and Cornwall as a doctor in paediatric palliative care. He finds his work “incredibly rewarding.” At the hospices, he’ll go on the Playstation with the kids. “Playing video games means you can be on the same level with them, and it helps them to see me as a normal person and not a ‘scary’ doctor,” he says. He recalls one child with severe disabilities, “who in the real world couldn’t walk, but in the video world could fly. Playing video games meant …