Using Games to Improve Medicine

miller60 writes "At GameJournalism.com we look at Games for Health 2004, a conference which will explore the use of interactive games in treating patients and training doctors. One presentation discusses "Glucoboy," a Gameboy based diabetes monitoring solution, while another looks at the use of video games in improving surgical outcomes. The event is organized by the Serious Games Initiative, among others."

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Re:Is medicine a science or not?

[forkboy]

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

I don't think you quite grasp the amount of chemistry, biochemistry, and physics that a physician must study in medical school. It's even more so if they want to specialize or do research.

Coming up with new ways of healing people *comes from* understanding the world. Researchers trained as doctors are huge contributors to medical research, aka science. (Going by your vague definition of science=understanding the world) Why don't you check out the NIH sponsored M.D./Ph.D. programs at various medical schools throughout the country? These people are accomplished chemists, physicists, and biologists. They are also doctors, many of whom treat patients in between lab times.

Get out of your little academic bubble...arrogant elitists like you are why the average member of the public feels disconnected from science.