"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
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Physician, Heal Thy Robot: Medical schools are turning to robotic simulators as a replacement for real patients. Students can practice everything from life support to drawing blood on them:
Immersion's widely used CathSim, which combines computer images with an 'arm' to insert the needle, makes students go through all the steps of a blood draw, from confirming a patient's identity to pushing the needle in the until they feel the 'pop' as it enters a vein.
I suppose that's better than learning to draw blood on each other, which is what we had to do in med school. posted by Sydney on
7/19/2004 11:02:00 AM
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