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Idea from BatElite in the ideas of questionable quality thread.
“+2 trait that causes health analyzers to not work on you, so doctors have to use the gimmicky tools/approximation to diagnose and health you, especially with failing organs.”
Summary of the idea expanded:
Examine can diagnose brute, burn, and oxy fairly well. For organ failure, you will have to either rely on the patients own observations: appendicitis causes abdominal pains and shuddering, kidney causes aches and pains in the upper right abdomen. Or, you will have to use context clues (shuddering, passing out, vomiting, groaning) and situational clues (they have bullets=could been spleen, they are drunk=could be liver). The penlight and stethoscope would be used as well, and can diagnose poisons as well as some organ damages.
Potential cons: very possible that no doctor in the medbay knows how to diagnose your organ failure, so you die. New doctors presented with this trait would struggle if it was organ failure (or toxins). Some people might just take the trait for the points and be presented with the reality of ‘you blood fall out’ and doctors only treatment is charcoal.
Things to keep in mind: would the medical tracker on the computer be able to track their organ failures like it usually does? That would give them a fun use but could make the trait too useless. What does/doesn’t this stack with?
“+2 trait that causes health analyzers to not work on you, so doctors have to use the gimmicky tools/approximation to diagnose and health you, especially with failing organs.”
Summary of the idea expanded:
Examine can diagnose brute, burn, and oxy fairly well. For organ failure, you will have to either rely on the patients own observations: appendicitis causes abdominal pains and shuddering, kidney causes aches and pains in the upper right abdomen. Or, you will have to use context clues (shuddering, passing out, vomiting, groaning) and situational clues (they have bullets=could been spleen, they are drunk=could be liver). The penlight and stethoscope would be used as well, and can diagnose poisons as well as some organ damages.
Potential cons: very possible that no doctor in the medbay knows how to diagnose your organ failure, so you die. New doctors presented with this trait would struggle if it was organ failure (or toxins). Some people might just take the trait for the points and be presented with the reality of ‘you blood fall out’ and doctors only treatment is charcoal.
Things to keep in mind: would the medical tracker on the computer be able to track their organ failures like it usually does? That would give them a fun use but could make the trait too useless. What does/doesn’t this stack with?