The world of asystole
A spare pen. A raised eyebrow. A chair kept free. Five colleagues in a paper world, with a little more to them than first meets the eye.
Get to know them ↓
Five fictional colleagues. Many ways to spend a break.
Choose a name. There is more behind the first impression.
Ori brings spare pens and a revision plan whose colour coding might need a plan of its own. Ask him one question and he finds three more. He has already saved you a seat.
The spare pens are for you, too. Behind all that preparation is someone who wants everyone to have what they need.
Lea remembers the score from three weeks ago. This is incidental, she says. She will still give you her last biscuit. Then she asks whether you noticed the important detail.
Watch the eyebrow. Lea has a reaction prepared, even when she insists she is completely indifferent to the result.
Ben is a nurse who remembers how everyone takes their tea. Two questions can untangle a hectic handover. What to have for lunch has taken him three days so far.
Ben gets to need a break, too. The person making room for everyone else gets a seat at the table.
Linh has a favourite footnote and hopes you will ask about it. She shares her carefully annotated notes. They also record the things she once got very confidently wrong.
Inside her notebook: “Things I was very confidently wrong about.” Her own mistakes receive the same careful annotations as everything else.
Dr. Yılmaz remembers what it felt like to be new. She keeps a chair free for anyone with a question. Her “one quick thought” occasionally needs chapters.
The empty chair matters. So does the pause that lets someone else arrive at an answer.
Between rounds
The study room, the staff kitchen, the walk home. This world has room for ambition, uncertainty, dry humour and people looking out for one another. You can start with a single familiar habit and discover the rest in your own time.
Bring the cards to a shared table, or read about the separate browser pilot.
Describe medical terms, dodge the forbidden words and try to beat the clock together. A physical card game to give or bring along.
Medical edition: English cards. Nursing edition: German cards. Character stories are separate from the contents of the box.
Choose cards or a gift →German nursing cards (page in German) →With the five colleagues
The cast also appears in a separate English-language browser pilot built around short rounds of questions. Read how its content is made and what its limits are.
About the browser pilot (English) ↗Educational pilot with AI-generated questions, not independently reviewed by clinicians. Answers may contain errors. Do not use it for patient care.
The physical card game’s round timer is separate.
Open the card-game timer →