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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 1:37PM Breakdown said

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I think the biggest news here is that Spike Speigel is not dead! He just joined the Trama Team!!!
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 4:20PM x4str0m3ch said

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i was thinkin' the same thing, haha.
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Posted: Jan 2nd 2010 11:07AM Hellion42 said

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Spike DIES!!!!?!?!?!?! sonuva...
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 1:46PM Wiizer said

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So, the ghost writer for Justin McElroy has been revealed...

Seems my attempts at extortion didn't pay off, and the McElroys decided to let the cat outta the bag themselves...
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 2:10PM I AM IRONHIDE said

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..........?
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 1:50PM Dirty said

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Now I can see how affords his luxurious video game blogger lifestyle.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 2:06PM Dirty said

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As long as their soda cans are red white and blue..... that is stuck in my head now. What have I wrought.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 5:32PM feelinghave said

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my god, these anime looks like naruto..!
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 1:57PM McBrick said

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So many opportunities I don't even know where to begin, so I won't.

Happy New Year!
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 1:57PM jayhest said

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Classic Mr McElroy ... Classic. I like having the addition of your wife here to chime in, because just like her appearance in the podcast she points out that: 1) We are way too childish and accepting of video game premise and backstory; and B) you should thank your lucky stars that Doctor McElroy hasn't dumped you for a Paleontologist or something far less geeky as one of our kind.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 2:13PM Wreckless said

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"I certainly was never trained in medical school in the ways of collecting semen samples."

Hmm, undergraduate? Too easy? The second question wasn't a pun, OK maybe it was.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 2:16PM HalfAznGuy said

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I'm pretty sure I read before that the walrus actually does have a penis bone.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 2:24PM Dirty said

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Booo-Ya. Actually many mammals do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum

be sure to look at the bottom pic. Boo-ya.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 2:33PM (Unverified) said

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All the characters have different colored eyes...
Green, brown, blue, red, purple, and no eyes.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 2:41PM drballsey said

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uhhhh... don't remember that Spielberg film.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 2:44PM Hafk said

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AND THIS BIRD YOU CANNOT CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, nevermind.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 2:52PM oboreruhito said

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I know this is all lighthearted, and I enjoyed hearing from Mrs. McElroy, but just to point a few things out:

Mr. McElroy: "I'm assuming that, as in previous games and in real surgery, he'll be able to draw a magical sign that slows down time."

Atlus Project Lead Yu Namba, in a July 1 interview with Siliconera: "Our main focus of this game is to be more realistic so things like the healing touch won’t be seen in this game."

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/07/01/atlus-tells-us-about-trauma-team/

Dr. Mrs. McElroy: "There is no department of diagnostics, so this is a made-up specialty."

Some Japanese hospitals have departments of diagnostics, which employ pathologists and radiologists in a laboratory environment. In most hospitals, this lab role is typically filled by the general or internal medicine departments.

As described, this guy is more of a House knock-off than a lab rat, and in most hospitals that sort of diagnostic work is usually done by GPs. So this isn't a made-up specialty or department, just one not seen in the U.S., but this guy's role _is_ fiction.

Mr. McElroy: "I'm pretty sure that she shrinks down and enters the body in a specially made craft to fight disease."

Destructoid previewed the endoscopy gameplay Dec. 9. No bowel prep, but the endoscope does have cute brown flowers on it. Does that count? http://www.destructoid.com/preview-trauma-team-endoscopy-w-tomoe-tachibana--157384.phtml

Re: forensics, as Dr. Mrs. if she knows the last words of any dead person she examines, like Kimishima can.

Re: orthopedics, PLAY FREEBIRD
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 3:09PM Spizarelli said

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Ugh, this just reminded me of my colonoscopy. Bowel prep is all bad.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 3:10PM Killface was here said

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Dr. McElroy, I have a rash. Can you check it out?
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 3:13PM BoilerMaker11 said

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Gabriel Cunningham? Who are they trying to fool? That's Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 3:28PM MatisyahuSerious said

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all talk of forensics aside, if you had paid money for any woman to collect semen samples, that's prostitution, not medicine.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 5:48PM Sly C said

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that's only if they do it with their mouth. or eye.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 7:10PM (Unverified) said

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Either way, just thank god it's not a man.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 3:44PM Otimus said

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Hi, I'm from the Internet and I'm here to let you know you've won post of the year. On behalf of the Internet, I present you with a $1 off coupon to Arby's. Eat Fresh! Wait, that's not their slogan. Oh well!
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 5:48PM Sly C said

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"Freebird has to have a light touch while he's working on some of the body's most delicate structures, like the penis bone.
Dr. McElroy's take: As I've told Justin several times, there is no bone in the penis. That's problem number one. Actually, I'm not sure I want to keep helping with this."

oh my god i laughed so hard at that.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 6:03PM mrmobius said

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The biggest error Justin made that his wife overlooked was when he said: "Freebird has to have a light touch while he's working on some of the body's most delicate structures"

Having done a placement in orthopaedics a few months ago as part of med school, I can say that orthopods are the least delicate and gentle doctors there are. They are the cavemen of the medical world. Get a hammer, chisel and electric saw, and make as much noise and smoke as possible (burning bone is not a nice smell), then dislocate a joint, relocate a joint, and stitch the patient up.
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 8:07PM Ethan said

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Medical games are on the scene to be stupid and wrong in different and new ways to medical TV shows!
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Posted: Dec 31st 2009 11:03PM MowDownJoe said

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Well done, Mr. & Mrs. McElroy. I was in stitches. *rimshot*
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Posted: Jan 1st 2010 12:40AM (Unverified) said

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You live in West Virginia?! So do I!

However I have never been at all interested in trauma center.
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