Learned something this week

[malkieh]

So in my excitement to share with my family, because a lot of them are nurses, I was telling them about these automated "dummies" for us to practice on in my college.

One of them is supposidly, skin feels like real skin, eyes open and close and dialate, he has a pulse and you can put an IV in, and evidently he talks!!

Another gives birth to a baby, and the baby could turn blue. It's really incredible.

So after explaining my excitement to my family member, she responded. Did you realize that my husband creates those dummies? That they are making an entire building for him to create more of them. I was completely floored!!

[achot]

Dec 24, 2009 22:11:46 GMT -5 malkieh said:

So after explaining my excitement to my family member, she responded. Did you realize that my husband creates those dummies? That they are making an entire building for him to create more of them. I was completely floored!!

yeah nursing school will bring you closer to your family!! Does that every time....

[medic09]

You've got a well-equipped school, from the sound of it.

BTW, one of the world's most advanced medical simulation training centers is at Tel Hashomer hospital. It is used for screening and training for all the medical professions in Israel. My wife and I did a disaster training day there, and it was fantastic.

[Rivka P]

Cool, Malkie! We used to call ours Sim-Man. How amazing to find out that your relative makes those. Do you think that this kind of thing will begin to be used in medical schools as well, in place of (or I guess first in addition to) cadavers? Would be good for kohanim, right?

[chavamom]

We have those simulators. They FREAK ME OUT. Esp. since the voice is coming from a booth with 1-way glass where people are watching you.