Medicine & Surgery
Notable Achievements
Job Threads
Doctor: Cylus 717 ~ Ashan 717
Job threads: Associate Professor: Medicine: Started Ymiden 717
Job threads: Associate Professor: Medicine: Started Ymiden 717
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Raft
Knowledge
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Threads
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Knowledge | Knowledge | Knowledge |
The raft: awkward to apply | The raft: replacement for stitches and bandages | Order of Aldunih: allowing you to test the Raft |
Mattieus: Approved your use of the raft on the patient who fell from the roof |
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Raft of Possibilities | Faith and Padraig discuss the possibility of creating a protective bandage which draws out infection etc. Faith bases this idea on a "raft" used in making a consume. They plan the creation. |
A Clear Solution | Faith and Padraig make and test the Raft. |
Testing | Faith tests it on patients at the Order of the Adunih in Rharne. It works! |
The Rot
Information on the Disease
Knowledge
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Threads
Knowledge
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Knowledge | Knowledge | Knowledge |
Nir'wei: Sick and Weak | Nir'wei (Sickness): Profuse Bleeding, Headaches, Ocular Pain | Nir'wei: Linked by Zuuda's Servant's Mark |
Dr. Helven: Offers Skepticism as a Challenge to Overcome | Diseases: The Rot: Slow, Painful and Terminal | Dr. LaVarro: Has a Treatment for 'The Rot' |
NPC: Head Doctor Balen Helven of Rharne | NPC: Doctor Druce LaVarro of Etzos | Research: Evidence Links 'Rot' Treatment to the Brain Itself |
Research: Compiling a List of Halluginogenic Herbs to Treat 'The Rot' | The Rot: Slow, Degenerative Disease | The Rot: Life Expectancy of 30 Arcs |
Nir'wei: Never Gonna Give Him Up, Never Gonna Let Him Down | Nir'wei: Trying To Be Optimistic About Diagnosis | Medicine: Tracking spreading patterns of 'The Rot' |
Medicine: Behaviors of 'The Rot' in different geological locations or among various races | The Rot: Only currently known treatment has its origins in Etzos | The Rot: Has been treated by inserting needles into the brain |
The Rot: Possibility of a multi-pronged approach | The Rot: Use of rats to study progression | Surgery: Prop up the patient while performing brain surgery |
Medicine: Using cooking herbs to slow brain rot | The Rot: Might respond differently in Sev'ryn | The Rot: Will need surgery to cure |
The Rot: Sub zero temperatures might combine with existing treatment | The Rot: More prevalent in Sev'ryn because of the familiar bond? |
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Thread | Summary |
The Diagnosis | Faith meets Nir'wei again and realises that her friend is very unwell. She brings him to the Order of the Adunih in Rharne for treatment. |
Light in the Darkness | Faith starts compiling a list of treatments in the Order of the Adunih in Rharne. She writes to the Doctor in Etzos and starts to put together a list of treatments to test on Nir'wei. |
Unwelcome News | Now sure of her diagnosis Faith tells Nirwei the news. |
Reconnecting | Faith visits the Order of the Adunih in Scalvoris and gets herself on the roster there. She also gets mentorship and agreement that she can use the Order resources in her research. |
Visitors from Afar | Faith is granted mentorship from Professor Til'na, a famous and highly regarded medic. She and he are going ot be working on the use of targeted sub-zero temperatures on tissue with the aim of curing specific diseases, including the Rot |
Growing Pains | Faith treats a woman with an unpleasant infection. She takes the knowledge gained here and applies it to the Rot. |
Cryogenics 101 | Faith considers the use of sub zero temperatures on the brain and how this might be targeted to cure the Rot |
This Isn't Rocket Science | Faith finally performs surgery on Nir'wei, curing him of the disease which has plagued him for so long. |
Lightbane
Knowledge:
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Threads:
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Knowledge | Knowledge | Knowledge |
Ailment: Lightbane | Investigation: Deducing Sources of an Ailment | Medicine: Common Treatments For Hayfever |
Medicine: Herbal Tea | Medicine: Herbal Oil Up The Nose | Medicine: Treating Nasally With Vapors |
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Thread | Summary |
Soft Landings | On Faldrass, the pair fight big (really big) spiders. Unbeknownst to them, Padraig gets struck by a strange affliction. |
Digging in the Dirt | Padraig and Faith are gardening and Faith recognises that he's having trouble focusing. She treats him for an infection on the cornea. |
In plain sight | Faith is in work when four men come in with a rare condition, Lightbane. Previously considered to be non-contagious, it seems that it might have mutated. Whilst Lightbane is considered incurable, Faith persuades the men to give her one arc to try and cure them. |
Broken Promises | Faith realises that, not only is Padraig's condition not getting better, it's getting worse. She believes him infected with Lightbane. |
In my hands | Faith goes to the Order of the Adunih and starts to investigate this disease. |
Reactions | Faith realises that the treatment for lightbane is making it worse and the disease is an allergic reaction which permanently damages. She successfully treats her patients. |
Epidemiology
Knowledge:
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In my hands | Faith goes to the Order of the Adunih and starts to investigate Lightbane. She is growing frustrated with how little they know about who gets it and how it is transferred. So, she decides that she's going to take action. |
Patterns | Having persuaded Galena to start to keep records, Faith approached the University and gets the backing of Professor Carter for a new topic of study: epidemiology. She puts together a proposal for the Dean and has to wait to find out if it's going to be accepted. |
Careful What you Wish For | Faith gets her answer from the Dean, which is yes. More than that, he offers her a job. |
Power Dynamic | Faith starts her work as an Associate Professor of Medicine with a focus on patterns of disease and incurable diseases |
Blood Transfusion
Knowledge:
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Knowledge | Knowledge |
Medicine: All Blood May Not be the Same | Medicine: Blood is Made of Both Compatible and Incompatible Elements |
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Thread | Summary |
Gods Only Know | Faith and Padraig take a trip through the body of Treid. When Xiur's blood reacts with Treids, and again when Padraig uses their blood to eject them from the body of the Immortal, Faith realises that there are different elements to blood and also that not everyone's blood is the same |
Testing Faith | Faith is in a class when she is thinking about how to put blood back "in" to someone. Famula interrupts, so she stops the train of thought. |
One Oath Too Many | Faith is faced with an impossible choice and tries to separate out blood in order to save both a mother and her unborn child. Famula is there, too! |
Degrees of Separation | Faith prepares her notes and studies in order to present the plan for analysing blood as part of her Charter and then, Licentiate in Medicine. |
Capstone Abilities
Medicine
Fighting Infection
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Fighting Infection: With this ability, Faith has developed an almost supernatural ability to fight infection. Using a mixture of herbs, techniques for cleaning wounds and her very strong levels of detection, Faith can target and clear wounds of infection, then stitch them in such a way that infection is far less likely to get in. This is not a "cure all" and infections can still happen, but her ability to do this dramatically increases the survival likelihood of her patients as infection is a very real killer. With improved environment and access to her equipment, this ability gets much stronger but even in the worst of circumstances, she is able to lessen the risk to the patient.
Approval Link: here
Approval Link: here
Medical Instincts:
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One of the main skills of a medic is the skill of diagnosis. Thanks to her extensive experience of medicine, her encyclopedic knowledge and her high level of detection, Faith is able to witness symptoms and quickly pinpoint whether the cause is natural or unnatural. Having determined this, she is then able to diagnose probable cause. The upshot of this is the more common the disease / illness / injury, the quicker she is to diagnose it. So, common ailments which are what they seem to be might be diagnosed after a brief conversation or very basic observation. Even when something more obscure might be mistaken for a more common condition, Faith has honed her skill to the point where she can spot if something is 'more than it seems' and can then quickly work to diagnose the actual issue.
If she doesn't know the issues being presented (so the first time she is presented with a particularly obscure disease) this would allow her to quickly recognise that it is not anything "usual", but would not speed up finding what it is.
Approval Link: here
If she doesn't know the issues being presented (so the first time she is presented with a particularly obscure disease) this would allow her to quickly recognise that it is not anything "usual", but would not speed up finding what it is.
Approval Link: here
Healing Hands:
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With enormous expertise in medicine, Faith is an incredibly efficient healer. She has honed her skills to such a po
int that her patients do better for being treated by her. Such is her expertise that Faith's patients fare better than others. In practical terms, this means that, if Faith is caring for an individual they will recover more quickly. With the level of medical care she gives, people she treats heal one third faster than they would if under the care of a different doctor. It is Faith's attention to detail and determination to provide exactly the right care and medicine in exactly the right amount at precisely the right time which means that this occurs. In order for this to work, Faith must treat the person daily and have access to all needed equipment.
Approval Link: here
int that her patients do better for being treated by her. Such is her expertise that Faith's patients fare better than others. In practical terms, this means that, if Faith is caring for an individual they will recover more quickly. With the level of medical care she gives, people she treats heal one third faster than they would if under the care of a different doctor. It is Faith's attention to detail and determination to provide exactly the right care and medicine in exactly the right amount at precisely the right time which means that this occurs. In order for this to work, Faith must treat the person daily and have access to all needed equipment.
Approval Link: here
Pain Relief:
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Because of her skill in medicine, Faith is a very efficient, very well known healer. Perhaps it is a psychological thing in her patients, or her own calm assurance, but when Faith is treating someone, they experience less pain, discomfort and negative symptoms, effectively cutting these in half. This ability requires Faith to be present and actively treating the individual and lasts for a full trial. If, however, she does not return in that trial, then the patient reverts to the usual negative symptoms. This works for symptoms only, so would be effective for the pain of a broken leg, for example, but would not impact the healing.
Approval Link: here
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Surgery
Blood Types
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Having extensively studied blood in service to Famula and as part of her marks, Faith has already perfected the techniques of separating red blood cells from plasma and has worked out how to infuse that plasma back into the needy. With this ability, she has an instinctual understanding of red blood. With careful examination of someone’s blood using her vision and sense of smell and then testing it by mixing small amounts of the donor and recipient, she can tell if a blood donor is a compatible match of red blood cells or not to the intended recipient. She perceives subtle difference in it which allow her to know if it will be suitable for transfusion into another individual or if it will, in fact, be rejected.
Approval Link: here
Approval Link: here
Unidentified Foreign Objects
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Faith can, upon a glance, not only immediately tell how to repair any damage caused to a person's body, but she can also make a very educated guess as to exactly what caused the damage in the first place. This allows her to remove any inserted object with relative ease, even the most complex shapes and weapons designed with barbs, hooks or other devices, while at the same time giving an edge over standard investigative measures if the object was already out of the wound. It also means that she can plan treatment, of course, since she is able to tell, even if the object is not there, where she should look for further, possibly hidden, damage..
Perfect Cut
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Faith is able to perform surgery to such a level that she can stitch in such a way as to leave no scars at all. The wound itself, once tended to by her, is closed and her stitches do not open, do not pull or get infected and leave no scar. This means that pain is reduced enormously for the patient and healing time is cut down to a very short space of time.
Surgeon's Instincts
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From her extensive experience of surgery and medicine, Faith has developed an instinctual understanding of diseases and how they work.Her specialism in previously incurable diseases has caused her to work in ways others have not. This capstone allows her to immediately know how to start working on a cure for a currently incurable disease. It doesn't give her the cure itself, but it cuts out a lot of the time wasted in chasing down false leads and so on, buying her the time to try and save her patient.