This robot butt is a painfully realistic video game for doctors (warning: cannot be unseen)

[KamaAina]

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-robot-butt-is-a-painfully-realistic-video-game-for-1463470930

How do doctors become better doctors? By doing more doctor things, duh. Things like spending years at residency, doing rounds, poking synthetic cadavers and yes, practicing prostate exams on a plastic robot butt video game.

Rob Delaney tweeted out this eye-popping photo on Twitter earlier this month and Geekosystem tracked down the doctor behind the behind to find out more.

Benjamin Lok was one of the doctors involved in the project of plastic butt and gave Geekosystem some background on the prostate exam simulator. The butt has a name, it's Patrick. The doctors in training can talk to and gesture with Patrick. Patrick's butt has embedded sensors to measure the pressure and Patrick can talk about his fears. Life is but a video game.

Patrick is currently being used to train medical students at Drexel University and the University of Florida.

Patrick!! "Get your hand out of Patrick's butt, Doctor."

[rrneck]

1. One way or another

this will be a study in the multiple applications of new technology.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Roto-rooting robo-robbie nt

[HarveyDarkey]

3. Also used to train DEA & TSA agents

[In_The_Wind]

4. How could we forget about that.

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[DebJ]

7. DUZY! n/t

[Orsino]

5. I really, really want the story behind (ahem) the name Patrick. n/t

[Kaleva]

6. That job didn't pay well anyways so I didn't mind being replaced by a robot.

[LeftinOH]

8. This device may be appropriated for other uses. You know it. n/t

[skypilot]

9. Like what?

[HarveyDarkey]

10. See my post #3

[skypilot]

12. I saw that post.

I got quite a laugh from it.

I can't look at that picture now without imagining the program coming with options for changing the background image and adding music.

[Kaleva]

11. There's video on the internet recorded by hidden security cameras.

[MrScorpio]

13. Oh, The Humanity!

It feels so real!