After a month of testing, KAREL the Nurse has performed flawlessly and you decide that further testing would serve no purpose. You contact the local hospital and inform them that KAREL the Nurse is ready for use, and 7 months early, to boot. The hospital staff is delighted to hear this and, as a sign of gratitude, presents you with a card entitling you to free X-rays for a year. In addition, you and the rest of your company are the guests of honor at the hospitals annual Save-A-Life gala, where the year's crowning medical achievements are honored.

You, however, have more important things on your mind, now. With an estimated eleven months to go before LOGO the Medic is released, you believe that you may be able to release a version of KAREL at about the same time, if not earlier. In addition, you already have the experience of building the KAREL project once, so development time for generic-KAREL should be significantly shorter. Furthermore, the glowing recommendation of the local hospital can do nothing but help your sales pitch.

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