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May 10, 2010 at 12:58am
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The popular children’s game Operation attempts to simulate the steady hand necessary to perform surgery by asking the players to remove simulated organs from a cartoon character without touching the metal sides of the cavity (thereby closing an electrical circuit and setting off a buzzer).
But wouldn’t it be crazy and humorous if a child swallowed that same buzzer mechanism, thereby giving an actual physician the experience of the game during a real surgery? According to the Author, it would.

The popular children’s game Operation attempts to simulate the steady hand necessary to perform surgery by asking the players to remove simulated organs from a cartoon character without touching the metal sides of the cavity (thereby closing an electrical circuit and setting off a buzzer).

But wouldn’t it be crazy and humorous if a child swallowed that same buzzer mechanism, thereby giving an actual physician the experience of the game during a real surgery? According to the Author, it would.

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