December 15, 2005

Perform a long and disgusting virtual knee replacement operation with Virtual Knee Surgery! Slice through skin! Chisel bone! Thrill as you pound things into your poor, unsuspecting virtual patient, all while a guy drones instructions at you.

It's not Friday, but it's a bit of flash fun.

posted by Lara 18 years ago
  • This isn't nearly as good as the one I played in grade school. In that one, you could just skip the crap and go for the scalpel. Cut away, the patient will only scream when you hit the "sterile drape," and then you get a good tongue-lashing from the head doctor. We used to write our names in a patient's stomach, then watch him bleed. Hours of fun.
  • Cool. I used to love to watch my old med-resident apartment-mate's eye-surgery videos, and I had an ACL reconstruction. This is cool.
  • Nice; this is fun. Scalpel, STAT!
  • Here is the site of the people who actually made it. http://www.edheads.org/activities/knee/ It's an interesting group. It would be nice it were better acknowledged by the site that is taking it and using it to sell ads.
  • I'm more convinced than ever that my career choice of "Anything where I don't have to cut living things open" was the right way to go. The sim is fun, but I could never hack (get it, hack?) the real thing. I did enjoy the video of my endoscopy, though.
  • Thanks for finding that, alumroot. I almost didn't post the link because of all the ads and junk and flashing lights all over the page.
  • Mmmmm no.
  • If you guys liked that, maybe you should ask for this for Christmas.
  • Ha! I *didn't* care much for the virtual knee surgery (even cartoony bone-sawing is pretty unpleasant to me), but I *did* ask for Trauma Center for Christmas!
  • Weezel: you're talking about Life and Death! I loved that game! Though I could never complete a surgery...
  • Also, a friend who has assisted in, or at least observed, such surgeries says, "It's just like knee replacement surgery!" I'm pretty sure that means we're all qualified to go out there and start doing these things.
  • What are you talking about, uncleozzy? I did three this morning. My coworkers are totally stoked that it only cost 'em 20 bucks each!