MEDICAL

    Criminal Sciences & Forensics: Basic knowledge of police skills. includes simple criminal law, fingerprinting, ballistics (matching bullets and angles of impact), and general investigative techniques. Forensic medicine is also included, allowing the character to find evidence of time of death, cause of death, and other details when examining a corpse. Base Skill is 35%+5% per level of experience. Requires: Biology, chemistry, chemistry: analytical, advanced mathematics, and literacy.

    First Aid: Rudimentary medical treatment which includes how to bandage wounds, stop bleeding, administer CPR/artificial respiration, and use antiseptics, and common anti-inflamitory drugs and pain killers. Base Skill is 45%+5% per level of experience. A failed roll means the patient has not responded to treatment or that treatment was improperly applied.

    Paramedic: An advanced form of medical emergency treatment which includes all first aid techniques, the setting of broken bones, suturing of wounds, use of oxygen and emergency equipment, use of drugs, knowledge of how to move a critically injured person, and other lifesaving techniques. A failed roll means the patient has not responded to treatment or that treatment has been improperly administered. Note: For serious injury or coma, roll three times consecutively on the percentile dice. A roll of two successful out of three means the wound has been properly treated or the patient's condition is stabilized. Failure means the patient's condition is unchanged. Another character can immediately attempt to apply medical aid or the same player can try again, but only after he or she has spent six minutes of examination and/or concentration. Base Skill is 40%+5% per level of experience.

    Medical Doctor: The character has a Ph D (doctorate degree), with Master's of Science, to be a practicing doctor.
    Areas of training/study include: clinical skills, medical dicipline, code of ethics, laboratory skills, techniques, methods of data collection, physiology (muscles, respiratory, blood, body fluids); fundamentals, principles and procedures of pathology (diseases, their structure and function), rudimentary pharmacology (use, reaction, and interaction of drugs). The medical doctor (M.D.) is also trained in surgical procedures (he is a surgeon). Note: The first percentile number indicates the ability to diagnose a problem and the second is the ability to successfully treat it. Base Skill is 60/50%+5% per level of experience. Requires: Biology, pathology, chemistry, basic or advanced mathematics, and literacy.

    Pathology: This is that branch of medicine that deals with the nature of diseases, their causes and symptoms, and the fundimental and structural changes caused by disease. Training includes anatomy, physiology, cell biology, manifestation of disease, tissue injury and repair, abnormal cell structure, metabolism, diagnosis of human disease, tissue culture methods and applications, analysis of drugs in bilogical samples and laboratory research, investigative methods, and use of instruments tools and equipment. Base Skill is 40%+5% per level of experience. Requires: Biology, chemistry, and literacy.

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