I tried to survive as a Doctor in The Sims 4

When the world first went into national lockdowns during the covid-19 pandemic, I, like many, craved a bit of normality in life. Being a freelance video game journalist, I turned to the one thing that I knew best and started a game in the popular life simulator The Sims 4 playing a freelance journalist.1 The results were surreal, funny, and a little bit profound.Fast forward two years and I’m no longer craving to do my day job virtually, but two years of reading hospital admission numbers, NHS crisis headlines, and my own personal experiences with the urgent medical care department had me thinking about one of The Sims’ more popular career paths: the doctor. So when The BMJ asked if I had experience of medicine in the Sims world, I started another (virtual) career, wondering how divergent this microcosm of non-sensical reality can get.Get to work!Unlike the scramble for medical…
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