# Creepy catalog from a company that makes patient simulators **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 4, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921 "2012-12-04T01:20:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/1 "2012-12-04T01:20:41Z")
A patient simulator is a kind of [medical simulator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_simulation) that aims to give healthcare professionals hands-on experience in the kinds of things you can’t really do on real people until someone genuinely needs care. Operations, emergency care, things like that; it’s entirely possible that those of you who took a basic CPR class had some beat-up old dummy as a teacher while you practiced chest compressions (and, possibly, rescue breathing, [which lay people shouldn’t do anymore](http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/CPRAndECC/HandsOnlyCPR/Hands-Only-CPR_UCM_440559_SubHomePage.jsp)) on a patient simulator. [This is what happens when a company that makes dental patient simulators makes a freebie calendar.](http://imgur.com/a/YgsLW) They’re either trying to boost sales or attempting to get into the ‘raise the Elder Gods’ racket, and from those pictures it looks to be a good year for the shoggoths. Somehow, December looks especially disturbing. Maybe watching [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rflsHvtTTGw) will help put us all in the mood. “I’m dreaming of a dead city/Where Deep Ones swim in depths of night…” ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/2 "2012-12-04T01:25:30Z")
_screams and runs_ ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/3 "2012-12-04T01:29:32Z")
They do get creepier as the year goes on but I think the tops are October and November. They look like they’re about to pounce and/or gobble you up. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/4 "2012-12-04T01:57:46Z")
And [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wk0MVG-cN4) is what happens when Dwight gets ahold of one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/5 "2012-12-04T02:24:55Z")
Oh my god. December looks like she’s going to tear his throat out with those inhuman teeth. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/6 "2012-12-04T02:41:44Z")
I would not want to see the September bus drive by. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/7 "2012-12-04T02:51:29Z")
That’s the funniest thing I have seen in a long time 🙂 Welcome home from WAR daddy! ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/8 "2012-12-04T02:58:06Z")
Is this an attempt to make zombies appear more approachable? It failed. ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/9 "2012-12-04T04:47:59Z")
Those pictures look like “Greetings from the Uncanny Valley!” postcards. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/10 "2012-12-04T12:48:53Z")
Looks like a tryiout for new Doctor Who creatures. You thought the Weeping Angels were bad – wait untiol you meet the Dental Simulators! They all look like they’re shouting. I can imagine them as replicants from the 1979 version of _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ alerting others to the Unconverted in their midst. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/11 "2012-12-04T12:53:51Z")
That’s brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepy-catalog-from-a-company-that-makes-patient-simulators/642921/12 "2012-12-04T13:38:49Z")
Huh they’re not lifelike enough to be creepy to me. They kind of remind me of blow-up dolls.