                             Welcome to

                   L I F E   A N D   D E A T H ! !

The pretense of this game is quite simple.... you are a doctor. But
not just ANY doctor, you are the one they call when there's a Life and
Death situation!

Playing the game however, is not all cut and dried. During game play,
you will be taken from patient to patient. Upon arriving at your
patient's location, you will be shown your patient's chart. This chart
will tell you who you are treating, their age, sex, height, weight and
a list of their symptoms/ailments. DO NOT take ANY of this information
for granted! (With the exception of their name of course!) Read each
chart carefully and completely. Your patient is counting on you to
know their case in and out, so you can make the best possible
diagnosis and save their life!

After reading your patient's chart, you will be taken to a menu which
displays 12 medical procedures. All 12 procedures are available for
your use during your diagnosis. But, naturally, not ALL of the choices
are GOOD choices! Your choices need to be made carefully, based on the
information you recieved while reading your patient's chart. For
instance, someone complaining of severe headaches would most likely
NOT require a rectal exam!! A brain scan? Maybe.... that depends on
the REST of their symptoms! For each patient, 3 of the 12 available
procedures are correct choices. The other 9 are poor choices. The
menu also contains a 13th choice which will allow you to go back and
check your patients chart again. This can be very useful!

You will be able to use a maximum of 5 procedures on each patient. In
order to save your patient's life, 3 of your five choices must be
correct ones. Even if the other 2 are poor choices, your patient will
still survive. If however you make 3 poor choices, it's curtains! Just
a note: As SOON as 3 bad choices are made, your patient has had it,
whether you have completed all 5 procedures or not.

The scoring for the game is configured completely by your sysop.
Following these instructions will be a screen which will tell you how
many points your sysop has choosen to give you for saving a patient,
and how many points they have choosen to take from you should you lose
a patient.

The high score file will keep only your HIGHEST score. For instance,
if you come into the game with a score of 2000 points, you will have
to save enough patients this round to go over 2000 points before your
high score will be changed.

That's all you should need to know! Good luck Doctor!
