I almost had to pull over to the side of the road after the line, “Don’t worry — McTool survives this heart attack, but he’ll probably have a few hundred more in the next year,” but I was losing it well before this point.
It’s just that, in his story about an Arizona training hospital using fake patients, reporter Peter O’Dowd is struggling to keep a straight face about people learning medicine using dummies. He doesn’t seem willing to give the story quite as much patience as it deserves, making it into a joke about a robot hospital.
"Liberty Street Robot Supply & Repair" by Gregory Lee, Flickr
And I can see why. Many of the mannequins featured in the story talk back to the people learning to help them. They talk back with very bad acting. Take, for example, this small clip I pulled from the story:
clip from “Arizona Training Hospital Uses Fake Patients”
The only appropriate response to that is lazy internet acronyms: OMFG LMFAO.
O’Dowd did fully report the story, and it’s not an epic fail; it’s just a little ridiculous.
So much so that I went ahead and made a ringtone of that robot mom (iPhone only, ’cause I’m lazy): Robot Mom ringtone
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