Carlos Rodriguez, DO, MBA, FACSHernia & Gallbladder Surgery
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Waiting Room Games

A few short games to pass the time before your visit, and maybe pick up something about your own anatomy along the way. Each one takes a couple of minutes on your phone.

Anatomy Rounds on a phone: a prompt to tap where an inguinal hernia shows up, above a drawing of the body. Tap-the-map game

Anatomy Rounds

Do you know where your gallbladder lives, or where a hernia shows up? Tap the body and find out.

Play → The Bile Trail on a phone: a labeled drawing of the liver, gallbladder and bile ducts, with the first question about where bile is made. Choose-your-path

The Bile Trail

You are a drop of bile. Follow the path from the liver to the intestine, and see what a gallstone changes along the way.

Play → Myth or Fact on a phone: the statement that you can live a full, normal life without your gallbladder, with Myth and Fact buttons. Pick-a-topic quiz

Myth or Fact?

Pick a topic, then sort the common myths from the facts about hernias, gallbladder disease, and robotic surgery.

Play → Doctor Talk on a phone: a grid of face down cards with one matched pair turned up, biliary colic and gallbladder pain attack. Memory match

Doctor Talk

Surgery has its own vocabulary. Turn over the cards and match each surgical word with what it means in plain language.

Play → Surgical Crossword on a phone: a clue about what closes the skin at the end of surgery, above a partly filled grid. Crossword

Surgical Crossword

Fourteen plain language clues about hernias, the gallbladder, and the day of surgery, sized for your phone.

Play → Day of Surgery: In Order on a phone: the first three steps of surgery day placed in order, from arriving and checking in to meeting the anesthesia team. Put it in order

Day of Surgery: In Order

Put the steps of surgery day in the right order and learn what happens at each one.

Play → Steady Hands on a phone: a curving corridor from Go to End with a finger trace partway along it. Tracing game

Steady Hands

Trace a narrowing path with your finger, then learn how the surgical robot filters out natural hand tremor.

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These games are for education and fun while you wait. The drawings are simplified and not to scale, and they do not replace medical advice from your own physician. Have a question one of them raises? Ask Dr. Rodriguez during your visit, or call the office.

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