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Tadpole		2004-07-29 07:36:37 PM

Watch One, Do One, Teach One.

I forget what eight was for		2004-07-29 07:48:09 PM

Bzzzzt

Buttahfingahs!

/obscure?

migueldelascervezas		2004-07-29 07:49:14 PM

Fun. Now all I have to do is contact my virtual lawyer.
/botched

mizike		2004-07-29 08:19:53 PM

Hopefully you can tame those damn sharp knees!

sfmission		2004-07-29 08:44:01 PM

I lost him.

OH GOD! How do I tell the family. I knew i shouldn't have done that without at least having carved a turkey before.

LazloHollifeld		2004-07-29 09:35:45 PM

No, I'm not a doctor... but I did stay at a holiday inn last nite.

Nodbody		2004-07-29 09:48:36 PM

So, how'd you guys do?

Zenken13		2004-07-29 10:55:52 PM

dead man limping.

chakalakasp		2004-07-29 11:01:07 PM

That makes me mad. It won't let me screw this guy's leg up. I tried by jacking it up and down repeatedly after cutting, but noooo. Heck, I even wrote "CUT ME HEREZZZ" on his knee. I have a feeling real knee surgury is way funner than this.

Point02GPA		2004-07-30 06:36:16 AM

Where's the "Whooops" button?

chumpchange		2004-07-30 06:42:19 AM

I gave him a boob job instead.

nixonian		2004-07-30 06:48:43 AM

It's Operation, the wacky doctor's game! Batteries not included.

ASUJon		2004-07-30 06:55:44 AM

Do they perform surgery on virtual knees?

/didn't read the article

RenHoekNL		2004-07-30 06:55:57 AM

This is cool.. however not as cool as 'Life or Death 2' where you could give a patient a lobotomy instead of some asprine. :)

the oob		2004-07-30 06:58:06 AM

My attention span failed by the time I got up to the 'mark the place for the incision' or whatever.

Oooh shiney!

K_Man		2004-07-30 07:00:14 AM

So... is it bad if my patient catches fire?

spog		2004-07-30 07:01:00 AM

PSA

Don't eat while you are playing this.

politicalgateway		2004-07-30 07:07:42 AM

Having had two knee surgeries before, but not replacement I found it preety wild and informative...

And I plan on taking even better care of myself after seeing that....

unreal

bomber991		2004-07-30 07:39:56 AM

Man, did any of you guys have that game ER, this was like back in 97, 98, and it was on DOS. Damn fun game. You were a doctor in the er and you'd diagnose paitents and stuff. Yeah, spellings wrong, I'm tired.

superc		2004-07-30 07:42:08 AM

I found it quite interesting til around when you had to start drilling into their knee. EWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

glock36		2004-07-30 07:55:00 AM

i'm getting one of these knees today,I can save alot of money now since I can do it myself

olapbill		2004-07-30 07:58:19 AM

Cool!!
I'll add there to my virtual resume, right after virtual pornstar.

/virtually satisfying Wynona Rider as we speak...

progaijin		2004-07-30 08:03:04 AM

I tried to hit on the receptionist, but she smacked me like a prison biatch. It was only fair to take it out on the patient.

Aulus		2004-07-30 08:15:28 AM

I taped a knee replacement surgery and a hip replacement surgery from when they were on TLC years ago. Freaks people out when they see them drill into the femur and all that bloody, gooey marrow comes running out. I had so damn many knee and hip injury claims when I was doing workers comp claims. Needed to know just what the fark was going on.

I was very pissed they wouldn't let me watch, live or taped, the arthroscopic surgery they did on my knee four years ago.

Then again, I also taped breast reduction surgery and had my daughter watch it when she was thinking about having it done. She did and still went thru with it. Just mentioning it to her co-workers gave some of them nightmares, especially the part about the staples...

camelclub		2004-07-30 08:34:42 AM

I made my patient's legs longer. Now me plays in the NBA.

morkrazy		2004-07-30 08:43:02 AM

i'm ready for 2 new knees .... now if i can find out where to order parts(does autozone carry them?) i can do it in my shed.

fatazzbrad		2004-07-30 08:51:25 AM

Best surgery ever

/2 knee replacements here

Ouroborus		2004-07-30 09:00:38 AM

the surgery was a success! he is now a she

ashardin		2004-07-30 09:14:25 AM

I had this done to me as well. Be assured, farkers, when you wake up it hurts just as much as you would imagine from the pics.

/My second sentence makes me cry, but I'm too lazy to redo it.

Point02GPA		2004-07-30 09:16:39 AM

omG!!!1!!1...we were suppose to do it in virtural reality?

JennyKat		2004-07-30 09:27:13 AM

What a great program! With a design like this, it might be possible that they can replace frog dissections in high school with a computer simulation!

bodyslam911		2004-07-30 09:30:12 AM

My father needs this surgery badly, every step he takes is torture for him.

onelikeseabass		2004-07-30 09:40:44 AM

funny how the x-ray says it's the guy's left knee, but it's on the right side of the screen

funnier still is that when you write your initials on the knee to be operated on, it won't let you write on the left knee

weak sauce!

onelikeseabass		2004-07-30 09:41:52 AM

nevermind, it's friday and last night felt like tonight will

ooops lol

p4ul13		2004-07-30 09:50:29 AM

olapbill wins the thread in my opinion.

*clapping in a golf-like manner*

klatubaradanikto		2004-07-30 10:03:17 AM

I have observed these and even got to hold the leg up. This is nowhere near as brutal as the real thing. It's more like carpentry than surgery. A hip is even worse. Once they separate the Femoral Ball from the pelvis, they just throw the leg up on top of the patient to work on the pelvis. That made me more uncomfortable than hammering that stake down into the femur.

larsoncc		2004-07-30 10:31:35 AM

That... Was....

AWESOME!

/farley

DupeOfURL		2004-07-30 10:35:44 AM

"Today is the perfect day to become a virtual knee surgeon" Is this some extension of the PhotoShop contest to create postcards for new Holidays??

MegaDethHead		2004-07-30 10:56:24 AM

This is creepy

kakarot251		2004-07-30 10:57:48 AM

HAH! Submitter got it out of CPU magizine
contrary to popular belief, you a'nt the only one that reads it.

theflyingdutchman		2004-07-30 11:16:48 AM

That help my attention. It also learned me to never have knee problems ever.

Ever since I saw arthitis bones I've been hellaconcerned about not farking up my bones.

I don't like bone saws.

onelikeseabass:

Anatomical position.

CheezeAnvil		2004-07-30 11:22:29 AM

Paging Dr. Trogdor, proceed to burnination wing immeadiatly.

trollus_and_cressida		2004-07-30 11:28:38 AM

first off, the flash video was very cool and very informative. I'd be surprised if doctors didn't start referring their inquisitive patients to it.

secondly, CheezeAnvil is the MAN!!!!!!!

Jekkal		2004-07-30 11:31:51 AM

It's a shame the rest of the activities on the site don't measure up the way this one did; the knee surgery thing was pretty cool.

J_Marshall		2004-07-30 11:31:55 AM

I performed a flawless surgery with a hangover!! I'm sure I could do the real thing. just give me a spoon, a hacksaw, and some legos. oh. and a bottle of scotch...

Jclark666		2004-07-30 11:34:13 AM

"Our patient today is a 76-year-old man."

Who apparently is a transvestite.

Mad Ogre		2004-07-30 11:57:04 AM

Considering the condition of my knee, I guess this is exactly what I have to look forward to.

Someone just shoot me!!

/Crying and Wailing like a baby