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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."
Is Doom III, which will aid the recovery of stool samples from patients.
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i'd hate to be the patient whos doctor looses that game
Sniperdermic Needles
Sprint/bunnyhop to long and your sugar goes low
Camp and your sugar goes high
Different health modules, some high in sugar... best be careful
Sugar fluctuates too much and you temporarily blind
Okay, who's up for writing a mod for HL?
They are great for inducing vomiting by certain people like me. Urp.. get me away from this thing!
I believe Daikatana was used for a while as a blood pressure monitor, but it had disastrous results.
wow all the cool new games that will come out...first person doctor, real time surgery(RTS) etc where you can do your own operation and see how many times and in how many ways you can die before the actual surgery. will give evryone a realistic expectation from the actual surgery.
I am quite certain -- the last thing I need is an excuse to play more videogames. They need to attach this glucose meter to a friggin stairmaster.
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
Diabetic kid: "MOM! If I don't keep playing, I'll die!"
DEAD DEAD DEAD DELETE ME
"Operation" taught me how to remove a funny-bone years ago.
Now I help moderate Slashdot.
Everquest: good practice for those 36 hour shifts during residency.
John Hancock wuz here.
... you have unlocked:
InsulinRage!
Similar to Mario recovering a star token, InsulinRage causes the player to flash bright light for thirty seconds as they become impervious to attack. Unlike Mario however, at the conclusion of these thirty seconds, the GlucoBoy player enters HypoglycemicShock.
First, it was Beer found to be as healthy as wine, and now games being used to improve medicine. Now the geeks will be known for our healthy ways!
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This is nothing new. Medical schools have been training tomorrows physicians with the game "Operation" for years now. How else would students learn to remove butterflies from the stomach? By practicing on live subjects? That would be unconcienable.
More than the actually movie, what you reminded me of was the episode of the extremely short-lived Clerks animated cartoon. There is an episode in which Randal beats a videogame in which you build pyramids with the end goal of becoming the pharoah. When he wins The Last Starfighter is mentioned and he gets all excited, but then he is reminded that the game he won at was about building pyramids and he becomes a slave forced to haul large slabs of stone.
Yeah, but scars are sexy.
I became a type2 when a sports injury resulted in a broken leg, herniated disc, and 75lbs weight gain :)
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
I became a type2 when a sports injury resulted in a broken leg, herniated disc, and 75lbs weight gain :)
75 lbs on a sports injury? Did the doctor recommend a dose of caramel-coated lard for the pain or something?
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
...Bzzzt! You touched the side!