Rush MD

You are one of the doctors who have just been hired in a new and state-of-the-art hospital. Together with your colleagues, you will have to cooperate to admit, diagnose and treat various patients who need your help.

Rush M.D. is an innovative real-time cooperative board game that simulates the challenging nature and high-pressure conditions that plague the medical professions. A worker placement mechanism, using hourglasses as workers, allows players to perform a multitude of actions.
A highly themed experience that appeals to experienced players and families alike, filled with fun challenges and sharp decisions! The pressure is intense as human lives are in your hands! Will you be able to handle it, doctors?

After setting up the various player boards and stockpiling supplies of blood, organs, and IVs, the game is ready to begin. Start by drawing an objective card based on the number of players and then choosing to play on easy, medium, or hard. You'll have as much time as you want to make a plan before starting with a 4-minute timer for the real-time phase.

The real time phase is where the game takes place, you have 4 minutes to heal as many patients as possible. You help patients through a wide variety of worker placement spaces, many of which can only be used by doctors (of which each player has one) or nurses (of which there are 4 shared among all). The innovation that this game presents is that each worker is an hourglass. When you place a worker you can immediately carry out the action of that space, but you cannot move this worker again until the arena has been used up. Controlling workers so that they are used efficiently is important to the operation of this hospital!

The spaces themselves vary by function. Some are as simple as taking patients to the hospital or refilling drugs at the pharmacy. Others are much more complex and time consuming, like the 4 different diagnostic tests, or the surgery. The surgery must be kept clean, so bare hands cannot be used to handle the organs, drugs, and blood given to them. Instead, the included tweezers are used to pick up and drop the kit components on the patient's stretcher - quite a test of dexterity!

All these tasks must be done in 4 minutes. When the time is up you have to evaluate all the patients in the hospital. If you gave them exactly the treatment they needed, then they will be discharged and you will all earn points as a team. However, if you don't treat a patient, or even over-treat him (who wouldn't want a second heart?) then you will lose reputation and the patient will deteriorate in her status. If a critical patient deteriorates, then he will die, which leads to a huge loss of reputation. The game will end after 4 rounds. If you have met the quotas on the objective card then you win as a team. If you don't, you'll all lose. You can also lose if the reputation of the hospital reaches zero. It turns out that letting people die is bad!