Medical Skills


Criminal Sciences & Forensics:

Basic knowledge of police skills. Includes simple criminal law, fingerprinting, ballistics (matching bullets to weapons and angles of impact), and general investigative techniques. Forensic medicine is also included, allowing the character to find evidence of time of death, cause of death, and other details when examining a corpse. Note: Biology, Chemistry, Chemistry-Analytical and some Mathematics, are all required before taking Criminal Science & Forensics. Base Skill: 35% +5% per level of experience.

First Aid:

Rudimentary medical treatment which includes how to bandage wounds, stop bleeding, administer CPR/artificial respiration, and use of antiseptics, and common anti-inflammatory drugs and pain killers. A failed roll means the patient has not responded to treatment or the treatment was improperly applied. Base Skill: 50% +6% per level of experience.

Paramedic:

An advanced form of medical emergency treatment which includes all first aid techniques, the setting of broken bones, suturing of wounds, use of oxygen and emergency equipment, use of drugs, knowledge of how to move a critically injured person and other lifesaving techniques. A failed roll means the patient has not responded to treatment or that the treatment was improperly administered. Note: For serious injury or coma, roll three times, consecutively, on a percentile dice. A roll of two successful out of three means the wound has been properly treated or the patient's condition is stabilized. Failure means the patient's condition is unchanged. Another character can immediately attempt to apply medical aid or the same player can try again, but only after he or she has spent 6 minutes of examination and/or concentration. Base Skill: 50% +5% per level of experience. Counts as 2 skills.

Medical Doctor:

The character has a Ph D (doctorate degree), with Master's of Science, to be a practicing doctor. Areas of training/study include: clinical skills, medical discipline, code of ethics, laboratory skills, techniques, methods of data collection, physiology (muscles, respiratory, blood, body fluids); fundamentals, principals and procedures of pathology (diseases, their structure and function), rudimentary pharmacology (use, reaction, and interaction of drugs). The medical doctor (M.D.) is also trained in surgical procedures (he is a surgeon). Note: the first percentile number indicates the ability to diagnose a problem and the second is the ability to successfully treat it. Base Skill: 70/60% +5% per level of experience. Counts as 3 skills unless stated otherwise.

Pathology:

This is the branch of medicine that deals with the nature of diseases, their causes and symptoms, and the functional and structural changes caused by the disease. Training includes anatomy, physiology, cell biology, manifestation of disease, tissue injury and repair, abnormal cell structure, metabolism, diagnosis of human disease, tissue culture methods and applications, analysis of drugs in biological samples and laboratory research, investigative methods, and use of instruments, tools and equipment. Requirements: Chemistry. Base Skill: 45% +5% per level of experience.


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