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Medical Doctor

Access: Medbay, Morgue, Surgery, Cloning Lab, Mineral Storage
Additional Access: Genetics Lab, Chemistry Lab, Virology
Difficulty: Medium
Supervisors: Chief Medical Officer
Duties: Save lives, run around the station looking for victims, scan everyone in sight
Guides: Guide to medicine, Guide to Surgery, Guide to Traumas
Quote: Oh, are you hurt? Here, let me kiss it better...

You are the Medical Doctor. You are at once essential and useless. With the advent of "perfect" cloning, saving lives is no longer as all important as it used to be. But don't despair! You can still help people! Mostly.

You spawn with a First-Aid Kit in Medbay where there are spares along with more specialized kits. There're also two syringe guns if you can get to one of them fast enough. Ammunition in the form of chemical medication can be found in the nearby vending machine pharmacy, but it's got nothing on what chemists can make.

Bare minimum requirements: If injured people will let you heal them instead of breaking into Medical Storage, do so.

Doctor, Doctor!

When you are a Medical Doctor, your job is to heal people, save them from the brink of death, and dump those that do die into Genetics for cloning. You can diagnose injuries and diseases with the help of a health analyzer, conveniently located in all medical kits, or even your PDA. As a first step towards becoming a professional doctor, you are recommended to read the Guide to medicine. You will learn how to treat many different ailments.

Medical Storage

The main reason you'll come into this room is to grab one of the health scanners on the table. These fashionable eyewear pieces let you see people's healthbars over their head. Not only is this useful for finding critical patients quickly in a crowd, but the red cross next to their healthbar will change to a sickly face if they're infected with a virus, or a purple xenomorph if they're infected with an alien larva. Chemists, Geneticists and many others will sometimes want these, too.

Special outfits such as nurse suits and EMT caps can be found in the medidrobe, for your special snowflake needs. You can find biosuits for when the virologist fucks up. There are also spare first-aid kits which should be kept safe for emergencies

Surgery

A room with an operating table, surgical tools and an observation chamber. You will occasionally come in here to relimb patients, remove an inflamed appendix or filter all of the beer out of the station drunk's blood. Don't forget to use anesthetic if you don't want your patients screaming in pain!

The guide to surgery is here.

Modern Miracles

A Deep Freeze

One of your first jobs as a medical doctor is to set up the cryo tubes. Learn how here.

Clear!

If a patient has died recently, you may be able to use the defibrillator to revive them on the spot. The defibrillator can be found in Medical Doctor lockers (plus a more portable version in the CMO's locker), and is usually used by up-and-coming paramedics.

To use a normal bulky defibrillator, take off your backpack or satchel, put the defib on your back and click it, get your other hand free and activate the paddles to wield them in both hands, then click on the patient while targeting their chest. If the patient is wearing a thick suit like a space suit or firesuit you need to strip it off as well. STOP DRAGGING the patient, if you are, to prevent yourself from being shocked as well.

In order to successfully resuscitate a patient, several criteria must be met:

1. The patient must not be dead for more than fifteen minutes.

2. The patient must not have over 180 brute or burn damage; 179 brute and 179 burn is fine, just not 180 of one type. Reduce their damage below 180, and you can try again.

3. The patient must not be a suicide.

4. The patient must not be catatonic.

5. The patient must be in their body (they will get a message when they begin being defibrillated).

6. The patient must have a heart. Plasmamen do not have hearts, for example.

7. If the patient has a heart, it must not have decayed completely. If there's too much heart decay, you'll need to replace it or perform a coronary bypass.

If all these factors are met, then the patient will come back to life! However, this doesn't mean they can just get right back up. Instead, they'll likely still be deep in critical condition, as a successful revival only removes a bit of each damage type. They must quickly receive medical attention if you want to keep them alive. Make sure to use a health analyzer or your PDA to check how they died; if they have harmful chemicals in their body, they most likely still do (chemicals remain in bodies after death, but do not metabolize).

Alternatively, you can disable the safeties on defibrillators in two ways: emagging it or having it be hit by any form of EMP (you can re-enable safety by doing the same thing again). The emag does it silently, but the EMP makes the defibrillator emit a warning sound. When the safeties are off, help intent functions normally, but disarm intent will instantly stun the victim for the duration of a stun baton as well as doing a large amount of stamina damage.

Medibots - Replace you, will they?

Medibots are the bane of any Doctor - their very existence is to replace you!

Not to worry! You can simply do your job by managing the Medibot. Move it to a location where you think it will do the most good and set it to stop patrolling.

Tips

The medical belt can store all surgery tools.
Bedsheets work as drapes for surgery.
If you implant a guy with a flashlight, he can still use it as a flashlight, and even toggle it.
You can use a health analyzer on a body to see the time of death.
Cryo won't work on you if you have cold resistance:
- Insulating items like hardsuits, ins. gloves, gasmask, firesuits - they all slow down cryo or even stop it from working entirely.
You can clone people that have been turned into an alien, by extracting the alien's brain and shoving it into a human body.
Attach a stethoscope on your neck slot and it'll make you look like you know what you're doing.
A fully upgraded cloner negates clone damage and brain damage. It can also clone husks.
Showers (wrenched to be cold) will work as a substitute for cryo tubes
People with hardsuits on cannot be defibbed.
You can scan people with a health analyzer to see if they've been dead for a short enough amount of time so they can be defibbed
Health HUDS will also display whether someone can still be defibbed as a blue ECG line, or that they can't as a skull.

Jobs on Beestation
	Command	Captain, Head of Personnel
	Security	Head of Security, Security Officer, Warden, Detective
	Engineering	Chief Engineer, Station Engineer, Atmospheric Technician
	Science	Research Director, Scientist, Roboticist, Exploration Crew
	Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Brig Physician, Chemist, Geneticist, Virologist
	Service	Janitor, Bartender, Cook, Botanist, Clown, Mime
	Civilian	Assistant, Lawyer, Chaplain, Curator, Gimmick
	Cargo	Quartermaster, Cargo Technician, Shaft Miner
	Non-human	AI, Cyborg, Positronic Brain, Drone, Personal AI, Construct, Ghost
	Antagonists	Traitor, Malfunctioning AI, Changeling, Nuclear Operative, Blood Cultist, Clockwork Cultist, Revolutionary, Wizard, Blob, Abductor, Holoparasite, Xenomorph, Spider, Swarmers, Revenant, Morph, Nightmare, Space Ninja, Slaughter Demon, Pirate, Creep, Fugitives, Hunters, Heretics, Space Dragon
	Special	CentCom Official, Death Squad Officer, Emergency Response Officer, Chrono Legionnaire, Highlander, Ian, Lavaland Role

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 |jobtitle = Medical Doctor
-|access = [[Medbay]], [[Morgue]], [[Operating Theatre|Surgery]]
+|access = [[Medbay]], [[Morgue]], [[Operating Theatre|Surgery]], [[Guide_to_genetics#Cloning|Cloning Lab]], Mineral Storage
+|additional = [[Genetics Lab]], [[Chemistry Lab]], [[Virology]]
 |difficulty = Medium
 |superior = [[Chief Medical Officer]]
 |duties = Save lives, run around the station looking for victims, scan everyone in sight
-|guides = [[Guide to medicine]], [[Surgery|Guide to Surgery]]
+|guides = [[Guide to medicine]], [[Surgery|Guide to Surgery]], [[Guide to Traumas]]
+|quote = Oh, are you hurt? Here, let me kiss it better...
 }}
+You are the Medical Doctor. You are at once essential and useless. With the advent of "perfect" cloning, saving lives is no longer as all important as it used to be. But don't despair! You can still help people! Mostly.
+You spawn with a First-Aid Kit in [[Medbay]] where there are spares along with more specialized kits. There're also two syringe guns if you can get to one of them fast enough. Ammunition in the form of chemical medication can be found in the nearby vending machine pharmacy, but it's got nothing on what chemists can make.
-''Oh, are you hurt? Here, let me kiss it better...''
+'''Bare minimum requirements:''' If injured people will let you heal them instead of breaking into Medical Storage, do so.
-You are the Medical Doctor. You are at once essential and useless. With the advent of "perfect" cloning, saving lives is no longer as all important as it used to be. But don't despair! You can still help people! Mostly. You spawn with a First-Aid Kit and in [[Medbay]] where there are spares along with more specialized kits. There're also two syringe guns if you can get to one of them fast enough. Ammunition in the form of large amount of chemical medication can be found in the nearby vending machine pharmacy, but it's got nothing on what chemists can make.
 [[File:Medbay.png|300px|thumb|alt=Medbay|link=http://puu.sh/3EEVj.png|[[Medbay]]]]<br>
 ==Doctor, Doctor!==
-When you are a Medical Doctor, your job is to heal people, save them from the brink of death, and dump those that do die into Genetics for cloning. You can diagnose injuries and diseases with the help of a [[health analyzer]], conveniently located in all medical kits, or even your PDA, but then again so can everyone else. And they will. No one waits for the medic to help, or often even for a medic to open the doors. You may have to take [[Medical_Doctor#No_Respect|drastic measures]] to get people to stop doing your job for you.
+When you are a Medical Doctor, your job is to heal people, save them from the brink of death, and dump those that do die into Genetics for cloning. You can diagnose injuries and diseases with the help of a [[health analyzer]], conveniently located in all medical kits, or even your PDA.
+As a first step towards becoming a professional doctor, you are recommended to read the [[Guide to medicine]]. You will learn how to treat many different ailments.
+==Medical Storage==
+The main reason you'll come into this room is to grab one of the [[Clothes_and_internals#Eyewear|health scanners]] on the table. These fashionable eyewear pieces let you see people's healthbars over their head. Not only is this useful for finding critical patients quickly in a crowd, but the [[HUD#Medical_HUD_Icons|red cross next to their healthbar]] will change to a sickly face if they're infected with a virus, or a purple xenomorph if they're infected with an [[alien]] larva. Chemists, Geneticists and many others will sometimes want these, too.
-A quick overview of all the damage types is found below. If you want to conserve supplies or are feeling lazy, it's easier to bring the patient down the main hallway and put them in a [[sleeper]] pod, where you can use the attached console to inject them with powerful healing chemicals. This does not work, however, for bringing patients out of critical condition, nor can it fight toxin damage.
+Special outfits such as nurse suits and EMT caps can be found in the medidrobe, for your special snowflake needs. You can find biosuits for when the [[virologist]] fucks up. There are also spare first-aid kits which should be kept safe for emergencies
+==Surgery==
+A room with an operating table, surgical tools and an observation chamber. You will occasionally come in here to relimb patients, remove an inflamed appendix or filter all of the beer out of the station drunk's blood. Don't forget to use anesthetic if you don't want your patients screaming in pain!
-===Fisticuffs, Knives, and everything in between===
+The guide to surgery is [[Surgery|here]].
-Whether it's from fists, bullets, lasers, or a kitchen knife, it's classified as Brute Damage. Brute Damage is inevitably the most common form of damage, and is easily treated.  Apply bruise packs conservatively until they are fine and dandy.
+==Modern Miracles==
+===A Deep Freeze===
+One of your first jobs as a medical doctor is to set up the cryo tubes. Learn how [[Guide_to_medicine#Cryogenics_Tube|here]].
+===Clear!===
+If a patient has died recently, you may be able to use the '''defibrillator''' to revive them on the spot. The defibrillator can be found in Medical Doctor lockers (plus a more portable version in the CMO's locker), and is usually used by up-and-coming paramedics.
-Brute Damage takes the form of big red streaks, or blue-purple-red messes. Apply Bruise Packs in those areas (usually head and chest), or inject with Tricordrazine or, in cases of a helpful [[Chemist]] and extreme damage, Bicardizine.
+To use a normal bulky defibrillator, take off your backpack or satchel, put the defib on your back and click it, get your other hand free and activate the paddles to wield them in both hands, then click on the patient while targeting their chest. If the patient is wearing a thick suit like a space suit or firesuit you need to strip it off as well. STOP DRAGGING the patient, if you are, to prevent yourself from being shocked as well.
-===Fire is hot!===
+In order to successfully resuscitate a patient, several criteria must be met:
-The second type of damage is Burn Damage. This is caused by fire and blisteringly high (or low) temperatures. If it's minor burns, apply A LITTLE ointment or force feed them a kelotane pill.
-Burn Damage appears as grey streaks on a person's body, so apply the ointment in those locations (usually the chest area).
-===Poisons and You===
+. The patient must not be dead for more than fifteen minutes.
-Toxin Damage is the third kind of damage, and is often caused by rogue doctors.
-Be it from a the aptly named Toxin bottle, [[Sleep toxin|sleep toxins]], or Radiation, Toxin Damage has no visible form, so can only be recognised via analyzing. Inject with Antitox, or feed them Antitox pills. Either way, they'll be right as meteor rain.
+. The patient must not have over 180 brute or burn damage; 179 brute and 179 burn is fine, just not 180 of one type. Reduce their damage below 180, and you can try again.
-===Suffocation, Asphyxiation, and general lack of air===
+. The patient must not be a suicide.
-The last kind of Damage often occurs when a patient is in critical health, and is usually accompanied by a another type of damage. Suffocation can be cured using Dexalin or Dexalin Plus, a Sleeper, or plain fresh air. If the patient is in critical condition, then heal the other damage, and the suffocation should recover naturally.
-Inaprovaline halts Suffocation damage when in Critical, but the patient can still die from progressing beatings, burns or toxins.
+. The patient must not be catatonic.
+. The patient must be in their body (they will get a message when they begin being defibrillated).
-==Surgery==
+. The patient must have a heart. Plasmamen do '''not''' have hearts, for example.
-The main reason you'll come in this room is to grab one of the [[Clothes_and_internals#Eyewear|health scanners]] on the top-right table. These fashionable eyewear pieces let you see people's healthbars over their head. Not only is this useful for finding critical patients quickly in a crowd, but the [[HUD#Medical_HUD_Icons|red cross next to their healthbar]] will change to a sickly green face if they're infected with a virus, or a purple xenomorph if they're infected with an [[alien]] larva. Chemists and Geneticists will sometimes want these, too, for whatever reason.
-You will occasionally come in here to debrain [[changeling]] victims, repair eye damage caused by screwdriver-wielding [[assistant|assistants]] or flash-happy [[shitcurity]]. [[Clown|You can also forcibly sedate someone, cut out their appendix and force-feed it to them as they wake up groggy with a mixture of confusion and numb, ambiguous horror and revulsion.]] Outside of this, though, it's mostly unused.
+. If the patient has a heart, it must not have decayed completely. If there's too much heart decay, you'll need to replace it or perform a [[Surgery#Coronary_Bypass|coronary bypass]].
-A guide to surgery is [[surgery|here]].
+If all these factors are met, then the patient will come back to life! However, this doesn't mean they can just get right back up. Instead, they'll likely still be deep in critical condition, as a successful revival only removes a bit of each damage type. They must quickly receive medical attention if you want to keep them alive. Make sure to use a health analyzer or your PDA to check how they died; if they have harmful chemicals in their body, they most likely still do (chemicals remain in bodies after death, but do not metabolize).
-==Modern Miracles==
-===A Deep Freeze===
-Setting up Cryogenics is easy and simple. Idiot-proof, even, but many forget to do it until it's too late.
-Firstly, ensure the O2 canisters are connected to the ports. There's a wrench nearby to do this. Secondly, fill the tubes with Cryoxadone - beakers should be on the table. Then turn it on, and reduce temperatures until it's at least below 200 for maximum effect.
-Before placing someone in cryo, be sure to remove any insulated bodywear such as RIG suits, fire suits and bomb suits. People that have received cold resistance superpowers from the [[Geneticist]] can't be chilled in cryo and will have to be treated with alternative methods.
-===The Mad Rush===
-If the Patient is in critical condition, especially when the health is negative, you have to work fast. Administer inaprovaline mercilessly, whilst you attempt to drag them around. If Cryo isn't set up, throw them in a sleeper, fill them with rejuvenators, and set up Cryo. If Cryo is set up, strip the patient inside the Cryo room (to prevent people from nabbing their stuff), and stuff them in a tube. Wait a while. Click on the tube to analyze their health, and if they are still in critical condition, leave them to cool off a bit longer. If not, heal them normally, accept their kudos (or sarcastically do so if they offer none) and then send them on their way.
+Alternatively, you can disable the safeties on defibrillators in two ways: emagging it or having it be hit by any form of EMP (you can re-enable safety by doing the same thing again). The emag does it silently, but the EMP makes the defibrillator emit a warning sound. When the safeties are off, help intent functions normally, but disarm intent will instantly stun the victim for the duration of a stun baton as well as doing a large amount of stamina damage.
 ===Medibots - Replace you, will they?===
 Medibots are the bane of any Doctor - their very existence is to replace you!
-Not to worry! You can simply do your job by managing the Medibot. Using your ID, you can alter his settings, and fill him with a beaker of delicious Tricordrazine or Alkysine, and let him inject away!
+Not to worry! You can simply do your job by managing the Medibot. Move it to a location where you think it will do the most good and set it to stop patrolling.
-Concurrently, you can fill him with a beaker of Polytrinic Acid, or even Emag him. Once Emagged, the delightful little medibot buzzes around injecting everyone and everything with not-so-helpful chemicals - like Beepsky without the I AM THE LAW.
-==No Respect==
-Nobody respects most of Medbay or the MDs. You'll run into this in many shades - an assistant that doesn't know when to stop pissing you off, [[shitcurity]] coming in to stun or flashbang at random, a traitor that wants Chemistry access, or an engineer who needs geneticist superpowers for <strike>space exploration</strike> building his autism fortress while his butt-buddy chain-recalls the shuttle for over half an hour because "WE CAN FIX THIS LAGGY SHITFEST GUYS COME ON."
-You will, inevitably, have invaders. If you give the slightest damn about doing your job, you're going to have to beat into these invader's heads that you intend to do it. Otherwise, they intend to ignore your existence and do your job for you. Your best defense, here, is your coworkers - with up to 5 Medical Doctors, the CMO, Virologist, two Chemists, two Geneticists and countless patients, Medbay is ''packed'', and all of them feel the same sting of disregard cast at them by fellow crewmates. If you band together, you will usually far outnumber any lone threat that wants to break down every window and grille in your workplace.
-If your invader doesn't listen, remember that you are a holy warrior in one of the most unholy places on the station. While sleep toxin doesn't do jack (and if you're running around with a syringe gun, it's better in the hands of chemists) you still have a [[strait jacket]], some handy-dandy soporifics that act like horse-tranquilizers in the [[sleeper]]s, and I hear the [[surgery]] room goes woefully unused nowadays...
-==Hello, I'm Dr. Death==
-So, you are a traitor? DON'T HIT SUICIDE JUST YET! There is so many wondrous, terrible things you can do. See that sleepy pen item? Guess what, when people get stabbed with those, they drag them to med bay to be "doctored" by you and other people. You can then take them some place private in med bay, and take what you want or go for malpractice to end them. This is very good if you happen to be in a crowded area an stab the HoP and drag them back to Medical when people are in a panic. You can hide victims by putting little notes by morgue trays saying "This man has been borged" or "This man has been cloned" and no one will bat an eye at why they are naked, and why they are there (and often the [[chaplain]] will cremate them, or the [[chef]] will take some meat).
-==To Conclude==
-You are a Doctor. Your job is to help people - sometimes forcibly - and dealing with the fallout from the numerous violent calamities that inevitably descend on the station. You serve both as go-between for the station and large and the more specialized medical departments.
-If you seek respect in this job, you have to go out of your way to earn it. But never forget the damage you can inflict on the unwary.
+==Tips==
+* The medical belt can store all [[Surgery#Surgical_Tools|surgery tools]].
+* Bedsheets work as drapes for [[Surgery|surgery]].
+* If you implant a guy with a flashlight, he can still use it as a flashlight, and even toggle it.
+* You can use a health analyzer on a body to see the time of death.
+* Cryo won't work on you if you have cold resistance:
+** Insulating items like hardsuits, ins. gloves, gasmask, firesuits - they all slow down cryo or even stop it from working entirely.
+* You can clone people that have been turned into an alien, by extracting the alien's brain and shoving it into a human body.
+* Attach a stethoscope on your neck slot and it'll make you look like you know what you're doing.
+* A fully upgraded cloner negates clone damage and brain damage. It can also clone husks.
+* Showers (wrenched to be cold) will work as a substitute for cryo tubes
+* People with hardsuits on cannot be defibbed.
+* You can scan people with a health analyzer to see if they've been dead for a short enough amount of time so they can be defibbed
+*Health HUDS will also display whether someone can still be defibbed as a blue ECG line, or that they can't as a skull.
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