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Medical Department
The Medical Department's purpose is maintaining the health and well-being of the crew. If you are hurt, sick, suffering from brain trauma, horribly mutated by radiation or horror beyond human comprehension, addicted to drug, looking to get superpower, looking to turn yourself into a monkey, get infected by space cancer, make a new space cancer, steal some drugs, make some drugs, make a LOT of drugs, make some bombs, are impregnated by aliens, generally feel bad or just want to bother someone come to the medical department!
To find medical look for sterile looking white and light blue color tiles. Medical is always connected to the main hallways. Not to be confused with the "medbay" a space of critical importance to the medical department. People will generally refer to the entire medical department as the "medbay" or "medical", mostly because it's easier to say, so don't get confused. Nevertheless this document makes the distinction between the medical department (referring to the space occupied by all medical departments) and the medbay (a central department of the medical department).
Gallery
While the images bellow are probably outdated. They should nevertheless give you a general idea of the medical department. Feel free to add or update some images!
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BoxStation Medical Department
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Medbay Storage
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Cryogenics Room
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Medbay Storage Pubby
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Surgery Room
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Patient Room
Rooms, Spaces and Facilities of the Medical Department
Depending on the station certain medical department facilities and rooms may be their own dedicated room or just an auxiliary (open floor plan style) add-on to another facility. An example might be the cryogenics room, which sometimes is its own room and sometimes it's simply an addition to the main medbay space. In any case, while certain stations might have add-ons or extra machines and while the layout might change the medbay's contents are generally identical across station designs.
Medical Foyer
Where you are when you enter medical from the hallway. This is a general waiting area where patients can wait to be lead into the medbay. There are three key features:
Medical front desk - Sometimes maned by an M.D., but usually not since they are busy or generally prefer to be in the medbay itself. Not to worry! The foyer has a helpful desk bell that you can ring to draw the attention of one of the nearby medical worker. This should usually work since the medbay is adjacent to the foyer most of the time. If medical seems busy there is usually a first-aid kit with some basic healing supplies, a heal bot or even a whole NanoMed vending machine! If you know what you are doing or are only slightly bruised up you can help yourself or let the bot take care of you respectively. Make sure to return what you use. If you are though worse for wear or have no idea what to do consult the good doctors.
Public chemistry fridge - During viral outbreaks virus vaccines will be in this fridge. If you hear someone from command announce "cure/vaccine/good virus is in the fridge" this is the fridge they are referring to.
Chemistry front deck - This is where you can ask for any chemical substance your heart desires. There is no guarantee you will get it, but you can try saying please. It usually helps. Just try not to let any officers hear you saying "may I please have some meth, sir?"
Medbay
The beating heart of the medical department. This is where the doctors usually idle about waiting for patients. This is where most of the healing and reviving starts and ends. What makes this spot important are the medical machines such as: stasis beds, sleepers, operating computers and tables. Doctors usually make slight modifications to this area by adding an organ fridge, more stasis beds, wall-mounted defibrillators... This space is so central to the medbay function that people will usually refer to the entire medical department as medbay for short.
An important machine is the sleeper. Despite it's name you will, in fact, not sleep in them. More probably you will be in them for about 2 seconds as the good doctor uses them to inject healing chemicals into your bloodstream. The sleeper starts with the some basic healing chemicals. Where can we get better ones? That would be the bar to the medbay's kitchen the chemistry lab.
Chemistry Lab
The chemistry lab usually has orange tinted tiles and a blue "CHEM" sign. It's staffed by two chemists. It contains various machines for creating, heating, mixing and distributing a wide array of chemicals. The most important machine here is the chem dispenser. It can, using the power of magic SCIENCE, generate chemicals from raw energy. You can learn all about chemistry here. Additionally it has two fridges used to store meth medicine and helpful chemicals. One is available to the public. The other one is only available to the medical department.
Genetics
Genetics is usually has purple RnD color tiles and a purple "GENE" sign. The lab contains two DNA scanners with consoles. These are maned by two geneticists who discover and distribute mutations. You can learn more about genetic manipulation here. Every lab comes with a pen of monkeys that is used for horrific genetic experimentation. But some pens are jungle themed! So, it works out you see. The main lab falls under the RD's jurisdiction.
The medical cloning pod "room" is usually nearby. The blue tiles and “CLONE” sign also signify that this part is in the CMO's domain. Mostly used by the M.D.s. Contains the DNA scanner with the cloning pod. When patients are too damaged or if the only thing left is the brain cloning is used to "revive” them. When a person is cloned, they forget the last 15 minutes of their life. Learn about medical here. It also usually contains a locker of spare clothes and a shower for easy plasma man cloning.
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