About
Living in Sim is an experimental mixed reality artwork that includes a website, online social media, photography and video to explore the complexities present in the current health care environment and online social media. Medical mannequins – typically used as patient simulators to train medical staff – act as surrogates to present intricate relationships between our sense of identity, culture and health care in a technologically advanced society.
In each episode the all mannequin cast of characters respond to a given scenario and work through issues that arise in health care including ethics, insurance, medical error and patient confidentiality. The germ of each episode is a medical or health care incident in the media or popular culture that is worth debating like mass multiple births or radical surgery.
Why medical mannequins?
They are virtual patients with real outcomes.
Online communities work similarly.
How best to use this site
Episodes are comprised of posts that show from oldest to newest so you can follow the story, unlike traditional blogs which show the most recent post first.
Humans should feel free to comment, although only the mannequins can post.
We look forward to hearing from you. For general suggestions or comments go here.
Very timely, good to hear so many opinions.
I came across your page at http://livinginsim.com/. I wanted to suggest adding a link to http://www.BioMedSearch.com. This is a free site that aggregates biomedical literature, similar to NIH’s PubMed (and in fact contains all of PubMed’s documents, plus more), but more comprehensive.
While it already has more documents than PubMed, shortly several million additional full-text documents will be added that are not available anywhere else on the web, making BioMedSearch clearly the most comprehensive place to search biomedical literature.
Good post mate!! Keep ‘em flowing!
This was a great read though! Thanks..