Field Medicine

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Field Medicine (current x6 to raise)

1) Field Medicine The field doctor may perform surgery even without the aid of special equipment. By merely drawing a finger along the skin of his patients, the doctor may make incisions.

System: You may make incisions, cut bone, and perform sutures with your bare hands. You do not need surgical instruments or first aid equipment of any sort. Your brawl attacks may deal lethal damage.

2) Bloodletting In a pinch, the skilled field surgeon may open a vein and bleed any toxins from a patient. This process is reminiscent of doctors of a previous age balancing humors, and is sometimes harmful to the patient.

System: you may rid someone's body of all toxins by making an incision in an artery and bleeding them for a while. Roll Int + Medicine difficulty 6. Successes indicate what level of toxin can be purged. Each attempt deals one lethal damage to your patient and takes two rounds.

In addition, sanitary conditions no longer matter during medical care. Your patients will never suffer an infection or toxic shock during treatment, even if you are performing surgery in a sewer with dirty hands and equipment.

3) Amputation Military doctors were once known for their ability to amputate hundreds of limbs an hour. This practice is still useful today, and may even be extended to organ amputation or the removal of troubled bones.

System: Roll intelligence + medicine and amputate an injured body part (including bones, organs, and similar). All damage that had been dealt to the target via that body part is immediately recovered. Amputated or harvested body parts may be preserved indefinitely and stored inappropriately (in your pockets for example). These body parts may be treated as having four health levels.

Any surgery you do no longer does additional damage or has any recovery time. Dot two still does damage.

4) Self-surgery There is some stigma against doctors treating themselves, but most of that is unfounded codswallop. Sometimes it is necessary.

System: All surgery abilities may be performed on yourself at no penalty and with no cost of willpower.

5) Organ Donor Occasionally it is important for doctors to be able to obtain donor organs on the battlefield. The truly masterful medics may even even spare the life of their patients in the process.

System: At your will, the only organ required to sustain life for your patients is the brain. Amputated organs, even damaged ones, may be kept alive indefinitely. Living amputated organs that are outside of a patient's body, may be treated as being inside their body. Therefore, destroying such an organ may cause the death of the patient, if the missing organ hasn't since been replaced.