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Moral Complexity in Gaming

April 14, 2010/1/0/

Zack Rovinsky touches upon an issue that we’ve previously written about, and uses current events to frame some of his points. An altogether fascinating read as it doesn’t merely tread down the now well-worn ‘video games are violent’ road, but instead opts to examine the dilemma of moral choices in the gameplay environment. Still games […]

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On Clean Design

April 11, 2010/11/0/

Ok, so we’re super proud of our infectious disease card battle game. We’ve had a bunch of med-students both at AMSA and elsewhere test it out and like the gameplay, in addition to the fact that folks actually start to recall some pretty epic ID and therapeutics info as a direct result. This makes us […]

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NCL Meets Peter Pronovost – Feels Good about Life

March 28, 2010/2/0/

Our very own Hon Weng Chong had the chance to meet Peter Pronovost and share some ideas regarding antibiotics selection decision support. Dr. Pronovost is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Surgery and is Medical Director for the Center for Innovation […]

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Well, This is Embarrassing.

March 27, 2010/7/0/

So AMSA happened. Francis, Hon and I got to meet with a bunch of cool folks, partied with some rockstar pre-med and med-students and amazingly, unbelievably, sold almost our entire consignment of Healing Blade games.  In the words of Neo, upon discovering the existence of the Matrix, ‘Whoa.’  And then we got this email: I […]

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It’s Official – Donkeykong pwned by MD / AMSA Day 2.0

March 13, 2010/3/0/

Gotta love this – a plastic surgeon named Hank Chien just beat the world record in Donkey Kong. For those of you in the know, there is a subculture of retro-gaming that permeates the land, with its trials and tribulations highlighted in the outstanding documentary, “King of Kong.” If you haven’t seen it, we highly […]

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AMSA 2010 – Day One

March 12, 2010/3/0/

Well, Hon, Francis and I fistbumped our way to Anaheim to meetup with the ever awesome folks at AMSA. Day one was surprisingly epic, as we got to play the Healing Blade game with more than a few interested pre-med and med-students. We were pleasantly surprised with how much fun people were having with the […]

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AMSA 2010 Here We Come!

March 3, 2010/1/0/

We’re closing in on the final designs for the AMSA 2010 booth, and we wanted to share with you how our little piece of the AMSAverse is shaping up. Be sure to come and visit us (Booth #1) for a chance to get signed copies of the ‘Healing Blade’ game! Also – in random news, […]

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Medical Entrepreneurship / Social Justice

February 17, 2010/0/0/

OK, these guys are our new heroes at NerdcoreLearning. “As a result, Kothari is currently at Sloan formulating a two-part plan for making inexpensive medical tools and building low-cost clinics. In 2009-2010, Kothari is one of 16 fellows at MIT’s Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship, which promotes “bottom-up” global development through technology. Two other […]

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Nerdcore MD Shoe Review

February 8, 2010/2/0/

Scrubs and shoes – there’s really not much a guy or gal can say about style on the medical floors. In ‘The Hospitalist Manual’, I talk about how ‘scrub culture’ is invading the last vestiges of decency within medicine, and that, in terms of style, we’re all just become one homogenized assembly line of teal […]

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On social enterprise

January 30, 2010/4/0/

The inspiration for NCL came from a series of lectures I heard in the car while dropping off my brother-in-law, Zab, at the airport. He had downloaded some lectures from itunes U – the Standford Social Enterprise Series, I believe – and we were listening to them. We were basically mesmerized by the premise of […]

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