Surgeon Simulator [PORTABLE]
The game's protagonist is a surgeon named Nigel Burke, who has a placement at a fictional hospital somewhere in the United Kingdom in 1987. He carries out various operations, at first on a patient affectionately named 'Bob' by the game developers, and later operates on Bob inside a space station orbiting Earth. Afterwards, he is contacted by an alien race by VHS tape, and operates on one of the aliens, gaining the title of 'Best Surgeon in the Universe'.
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The original indie surgery sim, Surgeon Simulator puts your inner surgeon to the test. Have your shaky hands got what it takes to perform life-saving operations or will you cause ultimate medical malpractice?
Parents need to know that Surgeon Simulator is a bloody game that's less about teaching surgical skills and more about seeing how much damage you, as the surgeon, can do. Instruments are clumsy and sometimes inappropriate, and the controls are intentionally difficult to use, meaning there's plenty of gore. Players attempt to transplant a heart, a kidney, an eye, and teeth. It's not a game for the easily frustrated or the squeamish.
Players are asked to complete a variety of surgeries using clumsy and inappropriate tools that are difficult -- and sometimes virtually impossible -- to control. Players select a tool and point it at the area they want to cut, saw, spread, or whatnot. Technically, they can attempt to aim it better by touching the screen with their other hand, but that doesn't always work. The on-screen surgeon has only one arm with which to operate, which makes things even harder. (It is worth noting these control issues are all by design. The game is meant to be grossly humorous.)
Whether you consider SURGEON SIMULATOR any good really depends on how you approach the game. If you come at it hoping to be a pretend surgeon, you're likely to hate it. It's clumsy, has downright terrible controls, and revels in the death of the patient. If you realize going in that you're playing a game that was initially designed in only two hours and is meant to be impossibly hard and more about creative and gross ways to kill the patient, you'll have a blast.
Surgeon Simulator is a darkly humorous over-the-top operation sim game where players become Nigel Burke, a would-be surgeon taking life into his own shaky hands, performing life-saving surgical manoeuvres on passive patients.
A new technique of small group surgical teaching has been developed wherein the surgeon takes on the role of the patient. This technique, which incorporates extensive and immediate formative evaluation, has all the advantages of simulation techniques while avoiding the major problems of training, scheduling and cost. This method has been used to teach a wide variety of surgical disease processes with the major emphasis being teaching patient management strategies. Sixty-one medical students have been taught using this method and they have found it superior to conventional seminar teaching, particularly in the domains of problem solving, patient management strategies and thought provocation.
Siler and Selden say they expect the intense vibe experienced in training will increasingly translate into positive outcomes for patients. Selden believes that in the two years since the simulator has been used, it has likely already saved lives because new surgeons are already accustomed to working under pressure.
OHSU medical resident Stephen Bowden, M.D., (left) prepares for a simulated brain surgery exercise at OHSU, look on, August 4, 2017. The brain surgery simulator model created at OHSU allows new surgeons like Bowden to gain experience without risking a patient's life. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
A surgeon drills through a 3-D printed model of a skull, as he trains with a brain surgery simulator developed at OHSU, allowing doctors to gain experience without risking the life of a real patient. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
Nathan Selden, M.D., Ph.D., watches as first-year neurosurgery resident Stephen Bowden, M.D., practices brain surgery techniques, August 4, 2017 at OHSU. A brain surgery simulator developed at OHSU allows doctors to gain experience without risking the lives of patients. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
A surgeon sutures a simulated dural membrane while training with a brain surgery simulator developed at OHSU, allowing doctors to gain experience without risking the life of a real patient. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
OHSU medical resident Dominic Siler, M.D., Ph.D, sets up the simulator as first-year neurosurgery resident Stephen Bowden, M.D., (center) and Nathan Selden, M.D., Ph.D., Campagna Professor and chair of neurological surgery at OHSU, look on, August 4, 2017. A brain surgery simulator model created at OHSU allows new surgeons like Bowden to gain experience without risking a patient's life. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
Nathan Selden, M.D., Ph.D., (left) watches as first-year neurosurgery resident Stephen Bowden, M.D. practices brain surgery techniques, August 4, 2017 at OHSU. A brain surgery simulator developed at OHSU allows doctors to gain experience without risking the lives of patients. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
OHSU medical resident Dominic Siler, M.D., Ph.D, sets up the simulator as Nathan Selden, M.D., Ph.D., Campagna Professor and chair of neurological surgery at OHSU, watches, August 4, 2017. The simulator hardware and software were designed by Siler and resident Daniel Cleary, M.D., Ph.D., under the guidance of Selden. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
Nathan Selden, M.D., Ph.D., talks a first-year neurosurgery resident through a brain surgery exercise, August 4, 2017 at OHSU. A brain surgery simulator developed at OHSU allows doctors to gain experience without risking the lives of patients. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
A brain surgery simulator developed at OHSU allows doctors to gain experience without risking the lives of patients. The simulated model includes a brain, skull and dural membrane, and is produced using a 3-D printer.(OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
A brain surgery simulator developed at OHSU allows doctors to gain experience without risking the lives of patients. The simulated model includes a brain, skull and dural membrane, and is produced using a 3-D printer (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
Mock blood is poured into bags, and is used to create a realistic situation for surgeons using a brain surgery simulator developed at OHSU, which allows doctors to gain experience without risking the lives of patients. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff) 041b061a72