[DISCUSSION] Medical Pharmacy vs. Chemistry

[Vandry]

We want to try a thing out before reverting it, and there have been several patches already to address things brought up. The underlying problem of chemistry not supplying medical with chemicals is unresolved. Some of the issues in this thread need to be resolved regardless of whether we keep or ditch the pharmacist.

I think labelling all this as stubborn is over the top. Equally as frustrating is attempts to shut down changes before they have been given a chance to settle.

If chemistry not supplying medical is the absolute underlying issue that these changes is targeting (which was not listed as the reasoning for the original PR), then my view is that I think the team is missing the fact that a large part of this issue stems from medical being overstocked at roundstart.

I've seen this sentiment that medbay is overstocked from some people and honestly? Yeah sometimes. But only sometimes and that's kind of part of the dilemma. Medbay being well stocked or not just depends on the situation. Active antags, population count, the amount of doctors on staff, what kind of patients are coming in, admemes, etc etc. With a busy shift on high pop the NanoMeds will get restocked several times while on a slow shift or lower pop I'll barely pull out my mender sometimes.

I don't think reducing the amount of individual things or quantity of them in the NanoMed will fix the problem of doctors being over prepared in situations where not a whole lot is happening because the system just isn't that deep, which is kind of the core problem of medbay in my opinion. And like you said there's multiple ways to deal with certain situations and I think that's more of a problem than the amount of things in one of them. Which is also the reason why the pharmacist generally just doesn't have a lot to do because the majority of care is extremely basic while having occasional niche cases to solve. In general I feel like taking away too many essential resources from doctors so they have to rely on a singular pharmacist, who may not exist or be doing their job, would absolutely be a mistake. 

With that said I think a possible idea to give pharmacists more to do would be to empty out some of the Port-A-Med, possibly make injectors creatable by the pharmacist (only with chemicals from the whitelist obviously) and let them use that as another outlet to put in their custom made goodies to be used. The Port-A-Med is mostly used for mobile or on site treatments in other departments, which would enable for the pharmacist's goods to be used more often than they have been so far.