Instead you have to refer to the medical videos in the library. The problem here is that they all deal with specific complaints, and don't cover how to diagnose an illness - and you have to watch an entire video if you want to get any information. There's no medical textbook contained in the game, and you can't even bring your patient notes in the library to compare them with the symptoms mentioned in the video sections. Virtual Surgeon needs either a proper manual or an in-game diagnosis tutorial option. What about surgery then, which takes place when you've correctly diagnosed a patient in need of surgical treatment - or got fed up with trying to diagnose them and just wheeled them into the theatre anyway.
Surgery is far easier than diagnosing a patient.
Yep, for two reasons. The first is that on easy level, a strange disembodied voice guides you through the procedures. The second reason is that it's quite hard to kill a patient during an operation, since you can only make incisions in certain places. If you take the scalpel, and drag it along on the patient's chest, a cut will appear - always in the same place, no matter what you do. And even at the hard and supposedly unassisted difficulty level, if you try to use the wrong instrument, you can't - you can only use an instrument when you're supposed to.