Cheap Emergency Room 2 (Jewel Case) (Software) (Windows 95, Windows 98) Price

Related Products

Customer Reviews of Emergency Room 2 (Jewel Case)

Very mixed feelings
I bought "Emergency Room 2" to improve on my medical knowledge and came away with mixed feelings about this game. It does have a wide variety of medical knowledge contained within, ranging from a medical glossary on your "Palm Pilot" in the game to specific details about where and when to use a certain instrument. Therefore, I can't complain too much about my objective to increase my medical knowledge. I can say that the gameplay was average. There is a huge learning curve when you start out playing the game. It isn't clear how to move from one step to the next (ie - interact w/ patient, then bring them in to diagnose) and there aren't any gameplay instructions that come with the game. The patient cases are relatively interesting, anything ranging from a simple "I stepped on something" up to a gunshot wound. Some patients turn out to be plain boring. Others are very interesting and require detailed work, including complete diagnosis, imaging, treatment and "doctor's orders". However, the most important advice I can give regarding this game is that I can forsee most people getting tired and bored with the game very quickly. I believe this would happen by nature because as soon as your are done with one patient, it's back to the waiting room to start the entire process all over again. I gets monotonous. This is why I bring it down to three stars. I played mine for a solid five or six hours one weekend but doubt I'll ever pick it up again; I'll probably default to another game.

---

Very Different
A very different game, it's pretty entertaning but it can get quite boring when you've already treated the baby that hit her head on a sprinkler a million times. Dr. D. Boss seems like a normal boss, a little nicer than some.

I don't know what her name is, but there is this nurse that flirts with you every chance she gets...which is quite comical.
Don't order unessacary procedures and tests, or else it will come back to bite you in the end.
The graphics leave something to be desired, and it's kind of annoying when you treat this one brunette, 16 year old and once you get done treating her, you go back to the waiting room to select a new patient and she's there again!

The same use of charecters makes you feel like you never treated that person at all.

It can get a little boring and the patients can get rude, but if you play it in moderation, it will be okay.
Good luck to the new Dr. Carter's!

---

Great Game With A Few Minor Flaws
I'm a 16 year-old aspiring nurse, and I got this game because I wanted to learn more about medicine. As other people have stated, this is *not* a game that you can just start playing and be good at, unless you work in healthcare or know a good deal about it.

Some problems that I have with the game:
- Occasionally a "patient" will come in with an injury in one of their extremities, let's say a badly scraped knee. When you get into the exam room, you can't immediately tell which knee it is, and sometimes they don't tell you. Because you lose points for performing unnecessary procedures, you are occasionally robbed of points because you check a normal body part first.
-Sometimes the CME (Continuing Medical Education) computer gives you bad advice. They tell you that most doctors will perform a certain kind of test, but if YOU perform that test, the game tells you that it was unnecessary.

Other than that, it's a pretty good game. When you do well in the exam room, the nurse flirts with you, which irritates me a bit because it means that the maker is assuming that all the players are guys, but other than that, it's fun.

There are plenty of resources in the game to help you, so you don't need to be a medical expert to play - just be prepared to put a little time and effort into learning. This is an excellent game for people who are thinking about going into healthcare. Because you can select patients either randomly or by ailment, it's also a good way to study.