Pharmacy: Do They Really Need All That

[Spyritdragon]

Yeah the reason scientists don't make medical chems is because medical already has their own entire chemical station, why bother when someone already made a pent-perflou-omni-reagent mix in a third of the time it takes you to even ask.

I think a lot of the aforementioned replies, but succinctly summarised in this, is why I'm a strong supporter not of removing pharmacy, but of letting chem be exclusively equipped for making the fancier chems, and make it really difficult or even impossible to get these in significant amounts in the pharmacy.

The chem rework almost did this with pentetic acid - let's go the final mile and close the instant-reaction loophole, make pent something you have to ask chemistry to make. Change the salicylic acid ingredient in perfluorodecalin for something fancier, or add another ingredient to it. Pull the atropine from the nanomeds, and/or make the acetone-phenol amounts not match exactly so as to be easily distillable from oil. There's so much potential fun in the chem rework, and it can make chemistry feel useful providing things to medbay that are truly cool to them, without depriving medbay of the ability to have a pharmacy to play around in with some other chems, or keep themselves stocked up on styptic powder and potassium iodide.