摘要：The Scenario She can hear his labored breathing as soon as she enters the room. She presses the stethoscope to his chest and picks up the erratic heartbeat. Odd noises are coming from his stomach. Then, he speaks. “I think I’m having a heart attack”. Whatever her next words, her patient isn’t listening. He is SimMan, a custom built life sized mannequin capable of showing every symptom in the book for nursing students at Washington State University in Spokane. The people who are listening are her instructors and fellow students, who are in the next room, very much alive and keeping an eye on her every move.