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Pharmacology can be dry and a tad boring at times but I found a site that had a link to the coolest game and I wanted to share it with you.

Bertalan Mesko at ScienceRoll posted a link to game that's half a waste of your time and half learning experience. Life Changing Science- Program 2: Virtual Open Heart Surgery.  Yup, you get to play heart doctor.

From the site: Open Heart Surgery is often cited as the most invasive of all medical procedures. In this interactive you assume the role of surgeon in coronary bypass surgery. The procedure is represented in 13 steps from prep to recovery. At each stage you will be supplied with instructions on how to proceed and then asked to carry out an over-simplified version of the actual procedure. Whilst based upon the real operation, this interactive is only a depiction of what is, in reality, an extremely complicated process!"

First you have to learn anatomy, then you get to pick if you want to be an intern, a surgeon or a specialist. You get to harvest the saphenous vein, make the cut, crack the rib cage and so on. Mess up and you get the message "Your ineptitude has ended the patient's life. Choose the Surgery or Anatomy button to start again."

Educational and entertaining, my kind of medicine!