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Serrath
Mar 17, 2005

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Ham Wrangler
Does anyone remember either a nintendo or super nintendo controller that had a "slow" button you could press that was supposed to slow the game but what it actually did was just press the pause button every half second and then unpause immediately? Like, on games where the pause button would just freeze the screen like castlevania, it would look like everything was just moving in frame by frame but any buttons you pressed while it was "paused" wouldn't register and in other games with an actual "pause" screen, it would be a hosed up mess?

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Serrath
Mar 17, 2005

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Ham Wrangler

I'm studying medicine now and this is the tip of the iceburg with respect to simulated humans to practice procedures on... our school recently purchased a bunch of "sim men" which are complete simulated humans with normal sized lungs, blood vessels (through which simulated blood is pumped at 120/80 blood pressure with palpable pulses), replicated skin, a beating heart... it's pre-programmed to complain and cough, both to simulate the presenting complaint and in response to student interactions (touching the bronchi elicits a cough reflex, for example) but it also has a microphone so your evaluator who's watching you in another room can speak and it will speak in the simulated patient's voice in case you go off script in the exam.



We have simulated vaginas, breasts, male genitals that are made by the same company as the proctology equipment seen above that can simulate lumps, discharge, textures etc corresponding to diseases but I don't have any good pictures of those.

In spite of this availability of equipment, a live actor was used for the testicular exam portion of the practice exam last year meaning that his balls were fondled by no less than 120 people over the day. Good times...

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