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...Education, Becker has proved that tough but fair discipline is a remarkable impetus to learning. There are no broken windows at Schuyler High School, and rarely is disrespect shown to teachers. None of the students are permitted to sport Beatle haircuts or far-out clothes. Becker tells them sim ply: "The other students are not in school to look at you. You're here to learn." Schuyler High will even accept potential reform-school candidates. One such student was recommended for enrollment by the Albany police after he had stolen a gun, 800 rounds of ammunition, and had robbed...
...Sim One is particularly good for practice in endotracheal intubation, a technique that involves slipping a tube into the patient's windpipe and administering anesthetic gases through it directly into the lungs. The procedure, used in 90% of all major surgery, requires so much delicacy and speed that student anesthesiologists usually take at least three months to learn it. With Sim One's help, the training time may be cut to two days. Developed under a $272,000 U.S. Office of Education grant by the University of Southern California School of Medicine and Aerojet-General...
...simulate virtually all the symptoms and physiological responses the anesthesiologist may encounter during an actual operation. From a nearby console, which monitors such things as the gas rate and the amount of oxygen in the blood, the instructor can suddenly introduce lifelike problems merely by pushing a button. Sim One can be made to vomit, suffer heart arrest, go into shock, react to drugs...
...robot's body, and will cause twitches in the neck area the way it does in humans. The robot's teeth are bedded in such a way that too much pressure on the anesthesiologist's equipment can knock them out. At operation's end, Sim One opens its eyes and blinks-if all goes well. If all goes badly, Sim One "dies...
...name suggests, Sim One is the first in what is expected to be a long line of medical robots. U.S.C.'s Dr. Stephen Abrahamson, who developed the robot with colleague Dr. J. S. Denson, expects that future generations will bleed and sweat, perhaps even groan...