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'Lifesigns: Hospital Affairs'

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'Lifesigns: Hospital Affairs'

Essential skill: How to be a doctor

Format: DS

This Nintendo DS title has the player leading the day to day life of a member of staff at a busy hospital, striving to succeed in the medical profession as you work from the ground up.

The player will learn the routine and procedure of a doctor and will spend hours in the emergency room where every decision you make has a positive or negative repercussion.

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