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| Probably a lot that can go here what with so many [[Medical Personnel | medical personnel]] characters.
| | An overview of medical technology, practices, and ethics. |
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| == Alliance Medicine== | | == Alliance Medicine== |
| [[File:Illo-haloarch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Halo-arch, retracted.]]
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| [[File:Illo-AAP.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An AAP.]]
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| [[Alliance]] medical technology is marked by its advanced technology, extremely tight privacy restrictions (due in part to the fact that the original Pelted on [[Terra]] were sometimes used as essentially lab animals), and a higher number of [[Medicine#Medical Personnel |healers than doctors]]. | | [[Alliance]] medical technology is marked by its advanced technology, extremely tight privacy restrictions (due in part to the fact that the original Pelted on [[Terra]] were sometimes used as essentially lab animals), and a distinction between healers and doctors. See [[Alliance Medicine]] for more information. |
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| === Alliance Medical Technology ===
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| * Halo-arch
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| ** Chimes with vital signs when active<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
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| ** Capable of generating numbing fields, as for wounds.<ref name="coldandgentle" />
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| ** Closed when needed for monitoring vital signs or maintaining fields; open when not<ref name="bloodmoney">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "Blood Money"</ref>
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| * That thing that hopefully makes higher gravity not kill you
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| * Skin sealer<ref name="sec-10">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 10</ref>
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| * Medplexes
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| * A drug for allowing people to operate with thinner air/lower atmospheric pressure than they're used to<ref name="leadership">"[[Leadership Lessons (Fiction) |Leadership Lessons]]"</ref>
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| * Phobia desensitization therapy<ref name="leadership />
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| * Medimage platform
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| * AAP, sometimes AAP syringe. Stands for Air-Assisted Pump; is essentially a futuristic hypodermic. <ref name="wiw-app">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', appendix</ref> Makes an assortment of quiet chirps as status responses, unless it is in silent mode, at which point the feedback is haptic. Normal operation of an AAP is not painful or even noticeable. It does hiss.
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| * Accelerated healing clamps?
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| * Cryogenic suspension<ref name="line">"[[In the Line of Duty (Fiction) |In the Line of Duty]]"</ref>
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| * vials of antiseptic bandage--smear it on and as it dries it seals wounds and sterilizes them. It grows cloudy as it dries <ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref>
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| * embryo flotation: a field holds the fetus suspended as it develops; a monitor in the mother's uterus records body temperature, metablic changes, and heartrate, as well as all the noises the baby could hear, in order to create a real-time portrait of the birth environment. A very old and much iterated technology in the Alliance. Babies born this way still hit the same developmental milestones as their natural born peers. <ref name="fc-08">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>
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| * "Wooly blue," a topical anesthetic that dyes anything it touched a fixed ultramarine ("dyed in the wool"). In the [[Alliance]], is only used in cheap emergency kits.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref>
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| ===Alliance Medical Personnel===
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| * Healers and healer-assists, trained in the [[Alliance]]. Most Pelted are healers or healer-assists.
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| * Doctors and nurses, trained in the [[Humans|human]] medical fashion. Less common in the Alliance than healers, but some humans and Eldritch, and even a few Pelted, living in the Alliance are doctors.
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| ====Alliance Medical Oaths====
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| * Kelienne (Earthrise, early chapter)
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| ====Alliance Medical Insignia====
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| * At least some Healers wear a DNA cadeuceus patch on their arms (unclear if this is specific to Fleet, or not, or something else).<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 9</ref>
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| * [[Nathan Lifeweave |Nathan]] and [[Laelkii Takara Lifeweave |Laelkii Lifeweave]]'s home is marked by a sign of a healer's staff.<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
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| * In ''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', part of what makes Laelkii blend in as a medical professional is a medical apron with deep pockets.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref><ref name="sota-11">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 11</ref>
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| ===Alliance Pharmaceuticals===
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| Legal pharmaceuticals used in medicine. For illegal drugs, see [[Criminal Activities#Controlled/Illegal Substances |Controlled/Illegal Substances]]
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| * anti-nausea patches
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| * day-after - this is slang for a cocktail of drugs that take care of hangovers and the effects of poor sleep; also known as an 'after-all-nighter' and 'carousing shot'
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| * erylliacoronade
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| * mellifleurin - not sure what this is for, but Hirianthial uses it on Reese
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| * slowsleep
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| ==Chatcaavan Medicine== | | ==Chatcaavan Medicine== |
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| Females do not merit the services of surgeons or medics, as they are considered replaceable.<ref name="etw-02" />
| | Chatcaavan medicine is heavily influenced by the Chatcaavan status hierarchy, and the distinction between those Inside and Outside. See [[Chatcaavan_Technology#Medical_Technology |Chatcaavan Medical Technology]] for more information. |
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| === Chatcaavan Medical Technology ===
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| * Flesh-sealers<ref name="etw-02" />
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| * Gel-tanks:
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| ** Contain a translucent green substance that can be breathed. It heals injuries and numbs and soothes those immersed in it. The tanks themselves are transparent, so the gel (and the patient within it) can be seen from outside.<ref name="etw-02" />
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| ** Works better on Chatcaava than on others.<ref name="etw-02" />
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| ** Can cause an intermittent state in which the patient suffers pain, fever, delirium, and unconsciousness. This is due to the conflict between the body's memory of injury and the body's healthy state. The effect is very unpleasant, but wears off every time.<ref name="etw-02" />
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| ** Is not used for minor injuries (and "minor" to a Chatcaavan inside might be "devastating" to a non-Chatcaavan).<ref name="etw-02" />
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| === Chatcaavan Medical Personnel ===
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| * [[Chatcaava|Chatcaavan]] [[Surgeon (Title) |surgeons]], who are [[Chatcaava#"Inside" and "Outside" |Outside]], and who have leeway in their behavior and level of respect because they are so sorely needed by males Inside.<ref name="etw-02" />
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| ** Medical personnel Outside are not politically obligated to anyone and are not subject to the duels and honor wounds of those Inside; their properties include similar protections (which extend to those sheltered within them). However, they also must maintain strict neutrality to politics, and cannot maneuver for political gain. To become partisan or seek political power is to become Inside. The power that they have is due to their skills, which are especially needed by males Inside, making them valuable members of Chatcaavan society Inside.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref>
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| * [[Triage (Character) |Triage]], a male who sits at reception in a clinic and directs patients according to need.<ref name="etw-02" />
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| === Chatcaavan Pharmaceuticals ===
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| * [[Hekkret]], a medicine and recreational drug for [[Chatcaava]] (and a poison for most members of the Alliance)
| | ==Faulfenzair Medicine== |
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| == Miscellaneous ==
| | See [[Faulfenzair Technology#Faulfenzair Medicine |Faulfenzair Medicine]]. |
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| * Birth control does not work reliably for [[Malarai]].<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref> | | ==Eldritch Medicine== |
| | *"These make the tisane that helps elders with their joint pains" <ref name="cod-apl">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', "All Paths Lead (to the God)"</ref> |
| | * An elderly Eldritch in the Seni tenant village knows "where all the best plants are, the ones people forget should be used for things like medicine." He makes elixirs and tonics, including one for relaxation.<ref name="fc-23">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 23</ref> |
| | * Master Taren mentioned as herbalist<ref>''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)|Dragons' Fealty]]'', Chapter 7</ref> |
| | * Sela, senior manse servant and Reese's tenant, asked to be hired. She said, in part, "...though I can keep house for you as is traditional, Mistress, what I learned first and best was the herb craft." <ref name="rph-11">''[[A Rose Point Holiday (Fiction) |A Rose Point Holiday]]'', Chapter 11</ref> |
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| == References == | | == References == |
