A video game saves someone's LIFE
by Jamal Moon · in General Discussion · 01/18/2008 (9:57 pm) · 11 replies
I never thought I would see this, but a video game saved 2 lives!
Detail: Someone (Paxton) was playing a realistic war game, "America's Army", which had a medic class. If you're in the medic class, you actually learn REAL LIFE medical training. Here's the story; two people somehow got their car flipped over and were badly injured. Paxton saw the problem and immediately treated their wounds, bruises, and ripped off fingers before they died. Then the ambulance came and took them to a hospital; now they're fine. So basically an average person with no medical background saved 2 lives by playing "America's Army." I just wanted to post this because EDUCATIONAL GAMES CAN TEACH YOU A FEW THINGS!
If you want the article, here's the link...
http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gamer-uses-virtual-training-to-save-lives/1181064
What do you think about the article/event?
Detail: Someone (Paxton) was playing a realistic war game, "America's Army", which had a medic class. If you're in the medic class, you actually learn REAL LIFE medical training. Here's the story; two people somehow got their car flipped over and were badly injured. Paxton saw the problem and immediately treated their wounds, bruises, and ripped off fingers before they died. Then the ambulance came and took them to a hospital; now they're fine. So basically an average person with no medical background saved 2 lives by playing "America's Army." I just wanted to post this because EDUCATIONAL GAMES CAN TEACH YOU A FEW THINGS!
If you want the article, here's the link...
http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gamer-uses-virtual-training-to-save-lives/1181064
What do you think about the article/event?
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#2
01/18/2008 (10:16 pm)
Wow, that was a quick response...I understand how it could be used to train people, but did they really think it would work as they thought it would?
#3
It's a little strange how the game makes you do all the real training, then all you have to do in game is walk up to someone and hold a button.
01/19/2008 (9:55 am)
Instead of studying for a health exam for school, I replayed all of the medic training in America's Army. It covered everything we learned in class.It's a little strange how the game makes you do all the real training, then all you have to do in game is walk up to someone and hold a button.
#4
01/20/2008 (7:04 pm)
Well what would u expect?
#5
01/20/2008 (8:06 pm)
That's exactly what I expected. It just seems odd to sit through an hour of presentations and have to take notes on it to pass, just to play as a medic in-game.
#6
Didn't so much save a life per se as toppled a corrupt regime. But, by extension, I like to think some lives were saved...
01/21/2008 (3:39 pm)
Similar thing happened to me after playing the "Hitman" series of games. Didn't so much save a life per se as toppled a corrupt regime. But, by extension, I like to think some lives were saved...
#7
I love kicking ass in this game.
I got a good chuckle when I heard this story, funny stuff.
yours truly,
theBadguy
01/21/2008 (5:03 pm)
The best FPS game going.I love kicking ass in this game.
I got a good chuckle when I heard this story, funny stuff.
yours truly,
theBadguy
#8
Having read the article, I now know that Paxton didn't rip the injured people's fingers off before the injured people died, but that's how I read it first time round.
Jonathan
01/22/2008 (5:11 am)
I had to do a quick double take when reading the first post: "Paxton saw the problem and immediately treated their wounds, bruises, and ripped off fingers before they died."Having read the article, I now know that Paxton didn't rip the injured people's fingers off before the injured people died, but that's how I read it first time round.
Jonathan
#9
01/22/2008 (7:21 pm)
LOL, I didn't mean that he ripped off the fingers, I meant that he was treating the ripped off fingers along with the wounds and bruises. 
#10
01/23/2008 (6:34 am)
Heh...that's how I read it, too! 
#11
1) Educational games don't have to be boring.
2) Videogames in themselves only impart the knowledge and lessons to which the player wishes to have imparted on him/her.
Awesome article :)
01/23/2008 (12:01 pm)
This means two things to me:1) Educational games don't have to be boring.
2) Videogames in themselves only impart the knowledge and lessons to which the player wishes to have imparted on him/her.
Awesome article :)
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