Comments on: Sutures of Staples?

Sutures of Staples?

studentbaker — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 11:57:09 -0800

Knee surgery for fun and profit! An educational and good use of Flash for kids.

By: jcruelty

jcruelty — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:17:04 -0800

cool... not much of a failure space though. i was disappointed to find i couldn't "accidentally" staple the patient's leg to his butt. still, pretty amazing that this kind of surgery is so common and effective these days. i found myself thinking "cement? drills? this really WORKS?"

By: sic

sic — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:34:45 -0800

I agree, very cool, but I was hoping the patient would yelp or something if I drilled him in the wrong spot. As someone who will have to replace his knee in about 30 years, I like what I'm seeing.

By: Prospero

Prospero — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:36:33 -0800

That was extremely cool.

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:44:40 -0800

I think I'm going to faint.

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:50:39 -0800

Way fun.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:58:16 -0800

Very cool, but you owe me for the lunch I lost when they got out the bone saw!

By: leapfrog

leapfrog — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:11:23 -0800

Man, I really wanted to be able to screw it up. Like, take the bovie instead of the marker, and cauterize my initials into his groin. And then staple his toes together. Instead, the stupid doctor just says, "Nope" or there's a non-specific error tone. Where's the gore? Doesn't this just encourage children to "try it at home" if there's no way to screw up?

By: some chick

some chick — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:32:37 -0800

I'm all woozy now. Neat, though.

By: Tryptophan-5ht

Tryptophan-5ht — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:43:11 -0800

That was fucking cool! but was a little unnerving.

By: dg

dg — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:30:46 -0800

Cool, but the inner male child in me wanted to try and cut his leg off and I couldn't :-(

By: qDot

qDot — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:55:11 -0800

Very neat. Anyone else play "Life or Death" surgery simulator back in the wonderful days of 4 color CGA graphics? I could do an appendectemy like nobody's business.

By: Coffeemate

Coffeemate — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:14:47 -0800

LOVED "Life or Death," although I never actually completed the operation. My little brother and I found creative ways to kill the patients. :) Hee!

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 19:10:52 -0800

Call that knee surgery? This is knee surgery. (Sorry, not safe for anywhere much, but some blighter spammed me with this site today).

By: clockwork

clockwork — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 20:07:24 -0800

i'm envisioning some kind of grand theft appendix where you get to play a seedy back alley mafia doctor whose good name has been sullied by bogus malpractice lawsuits. you could either burn fingerprints off two-bit hoods, or try and get your medical degree back and go straight. total immersion! in blood!! up to the forearms, anyway.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 20:41:38 -0800

While you can't cut off his leg or poke the nurse with the cautert, I'd like to point out that you can write smiley faces (or presumably even obscenities!!!!) on the patient with the marker. I added some fine art to my CUT HIM HERE lines.

By: lumiere

lumiere — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 02:04:06 -0800

this is fantastic! (even though it made me slightly queasy.) it's my experience that kids sites/books are often the best way to learn the basics of any given topic quickly (and it's also a lot of fun to spend some time in the children's section of your local library)..

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 07:10:51 -0800

Jesus, raygirvan. Erg. /passes out.