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| Robot Mother Gives Birth |
| 2007-01-04 |
| With South Korea's birth rate at its lowest ever, medical students are resorting to robots to practice bringing babies into the world. Kyunghee University Medical Center in Seoul is the first institution in South Korea to use Noelle, a life-sized robot, and her "newborn" to give obstetric students experience. "With this simulator training tool, we can conduct not only normal deliveries, but also complicated deliveries such as breech births, Caesarean deliveries," Professor Jung Eui told Reuters Television. "Students can practice in a very realistic situation with this mannequin." Students regularly crowd around Noelle as she gives "birth." They take turns at monitoring her vital signs and at pulling the "baby" out of her body... (insert joke here) |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #4 "I'm sorry, Dave, I cannot do that." |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2007-01-04 23:11 |
| #3 How about, "Headline! Woman gives birth in hurricane three times!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-01-04 18:50 |
| #2 Hmmm... kinda ruins the old joke. "Every six seconds, somewhere in the world a woman gives birth. We must find this woman and stop her." |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-01-04 18:45 |
| #1 Is it programmed to say "I want my epidural!"? [/ObscureNorthernExposureReference] |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-01-04 16:59 |