Play more games, save more lives.
I am oddly pleased by this:
Think playing video games is little more than a great way to waste time? Then you haven’t met Paxton Galvanek. Last November, the twenty-eight year-old helped rescue two victims from an overturned SUV on the shoulder of a North Carolina interstate. As the first one on the scene, Galvanek safely removed both individuals from the smoking vehicle and properly assessed and treated their wounds, which included bruises, scrapes, head trauma and the loss of two fingers.
His medical background? None – other than what he’s learned playing as a medic in the computer game America’s Army.
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“In the case of this accident, I evaluated the situation and placed priority on the driver of the car who had missing fingers,” he said. “I then recalled that in section two of the medic training, I learned about controlled bleeding. I noticed that the wounded man had severe bleeding that he could not control. I used a towel as a dressing and asked the man to hold the towel on his wound and to raise his hand above his head to lessen the blood flow which allowed me to evaluate his other injuries which included a cut on his head.”
THIS is why healers matter, people. Suddenly, I feel compelled to pitch a “CPR” career specialization for WAR.
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After playing a healer for two years in WoW, I’ve grown wary of even testing the waters again. However, as I’ve been looking over the classes of WAR… It’s almost tempted me to give healing another go. I just really hate being super squishy and having the person who’s supposed to be protecting me just run off and let me die.
Ha! And my parents were always telling me that video games would rot my brain. Pfffft. Now if I could just get that Cure Serious Wounds spell to work…