Annnnd, We’re Back!
Our apologies for not having manned the blog-cannon for the past few weeks! We’ve literally been NTTGS (noses to the grind-stone) prepping and actually launching the Healing Blade v1.1. Art updates, bug squashes, game revisions, the whole nine. We found ourselves at the always epic Health2.0 conference in downtown San Francisco, where we made the […]
nerdmed101 The Healing Blade, Updates Epic, healing blade, Health 2.0, LaunchHail to the Jef
A few posts ago, I waxed lyrical on the merits of good writing. Ever since we decided to open up our knowledge-base via the Healing Blade wiki, we’ve been searching for a talented writer to take on the task of breathing life into the warriors and creatures of the realm of Soma. A friend of […]
nerdmed101 Geekdom, The Healing Blade, Updates awesome, THB, wiki, writingRehydration Comments
The emergency room is at once both a fascinating and terrifying place. It is an exercise in balance and limitations, boiling down to either chaos or controlled chaos. This was my observation at a fully staffed, well stocked 400 bed regional referral center in west Texas. It tests the limits of my imagination to fathom […]
nerdmed101 Fundraising, Random Stuff, The Healing Blade, Updates cholera, rehydration, social enterprise, southern punjabSXSW Panel 2011!
Greetings Apothecaries & Lords of Pestilence! Healing Blade 1.1 is confirmed for its September launch. We’ll be announcing it to everyone on the NerdcoreLearning and Healing Blade Facebook Groups so that you all get first dibs on it before anyone else! We also need your help in a very important event. The Healing Blade has been […]
nerdmed101 Contest, Geekdom, The Healing Blade, Updates Francis Kong, Freedom!, SXSW, The Healing Blade, VotingWiki Blues
Just wanted to give a heads up to folks who wrote in about our site’s wiki being down. Thank you very much! We’re in the process of getting it fixed and should have all of the moving pieces up again. In the spirit of keeping things interesting, I wanted to share with you why we […]
nerdmed101 Random Stuff, The Healing Blade, Updates blues, community, hacked, help, reasoning, wikiBacteriodes fragilis: THB Pestilence Profile
This fetid bottom-feeder is an important part of the natural ecosystem, but can become malevolent if given the opportunity, displaying various resistances to apothecary attacks of late. If this agent is killed by metronidazole combined with cefotaxime, aztreonam OR ceftriaxone, then the pestilence player suffer 1 extra point of damage from this attack.
nerdmed101 Games, The Healing Blade bacteria, pestilenceThe World Needs Heroes
The real-time strategy game, World of Warcraft III (not to be confused with the MMORPG WoW) – same company, different game, introduced the world to the concept of the Hero Unit. Essentially these where characters in the game that you controlled like regular units, but would have special powers and typically be more effective on […]
nerdmed101 The Healing Blade, Updates healing blade, HeroesOn Creativity
One of the great joys I derive from practicing medicine is the ability to be creative in terms of figuring out solutions for my patients. There are myriad different ways of approaching the multiple issues affecting hospitalized patients. And while we have evidence based standards of care which should be held with the highest regard, […]
nerdmed101 Geekdom, Rants, The Healing Blade creativity, The Healing BladeOn Sexuality and the Healing Blade
A few days ago, we woke up to the sound of concern. It seemed to be permeating from our comments board. In particular, this one: You folks are businessfolks, right? You’re interested in selling as much stuff as possible, right? I read about Healingblade in The Scientist, immediately thought of how much fun it would […]
nerdmed101 Random Stuff, Rants, The Healing Blade, Updates Equality, healing blade, sexuality, T. pallidum, VotingOn Artistic License (or lack thereof)
On the very same day that the AMA story about The Healing Blade hit, a second less than flattering story was also making its way around the intertubes – one that went a little bit like this: Dan Barrett, or @dangerawesome on twitter, brought it to our attention. A new gaming product ‘Healing Blade’ has a […]
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