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Medical Policy

3.1 - Treatment

• The primary duty of Medical is to keep crewmembers alive and well. To this end, treatment is covered by Nanotrasen and requires no cost to anyone. It is considered Embezzlement (C03) to allow at-cost surgery to occur, and the Chief Medical Officer is responsible for ensuring that this does not happen.
• The Chief Medical Officer is responsible for making sure that all Medical Doctors, Paramedics, Virologists, Chemists, Morticians, and Psychologists are appropriately and professionally dealing with the medical needs of the crew.
• Inappropriate and unwanted surgeries are grounds for immediate demotion. This includes: gender modification, pacification, hypnosis, and so on. Consent must be given, aside from the case of pacification, where the Head of Security has ordered it.
• Patients and doctors are requested to remain a safe distance away from all ongoing surgeries to provide privacy to patients and staff alike while they work.
• Medical must provide treatment to any crewmembers, unless providing treatment to someone would immediately endanger the Department or Crew. Disputes over this will be arbitrated by the Chief Medical Officer.
• Medical should prefer to utilize neurectomies over lobotomies, and lobotomizing patients is grounds for demotion unless the lobotomy absolutely necessary. A person cannot consent to lobotomization without a written waiver.

3.2 - Augmentative (non-essential) surgery

• Members of medical should not give out augmentative surgery to non-security personnel outside of red alert, except where it is medically necessary.
• Members of medical should not give out augmentative surgery to security personnel outside of blue alert, except where it is medically necessary.
• Individuals with weak limbs (i.e., prone to severing) qualify for appropriate strengthening surgeries.
• An exhaustive list of augmentative surgeries is:

** Vein Threading;
** Hydraulics Routing Optimization (synthetic);
** Nerve Splicing;
** System Automatic Reset Subroutine (synthetic);
** Nerve Grounding (permitted for engineers only);
** Vein Muscle Membrane;
** Hydraulics Redundancy Subroutine (synthetic);
** Ligament Reinforcement;
** Anchor Point Reinforcement (synthetic);
** Ligament Hook;
** Cortex Imprint;
** Wetware OS Ver 2.0 (synthetic);
** Cortex Folding;
** Wetware OS Labyrinthian Programming (synthetic).

• Some surgeries listed, as stated, can become medically necessary. For example, "vein muscle membrane" can be utilized on patients whose heart has failed.

3.3 - Paramedics

• Paramedics should be prepared to respond to any call for Medical, and arrive in a quick and timely fashion.
• Field treatment may be done as necessary, but it is better to take the patient directly to Medbay for treatment.
• Deploying to Lavaland is purely optional, and should not be mandated by the Chief Medical Officer, unless adequately equipped and attended by a backup team.

3.4 - Chemistry

• Chemists are expected to stock the fridge with a bare minimum of chemicals in order for the medical team to thrive. The Chief Medical Officer may determine the quantity or quality of this, but a general idea is: all four damage types covered, radiation treatment (pot-iod is fine), mutadone, beneficial viruses, and husk treatment. This recommendation is non-binding; what is expected is that the chemist makes usable medicines.
• Factories are considered a side project, and should not take priority over the demands of medical staff when necessary. If a doctor is demanding a chemist to produce a high quantity of synthflesh, the factory must either provide that in a quick amount of time (5 or 10 minutes at most), or be left alone until the need is no longer necessary.
• Chemicals should be mixed with common sense. Mixing volatile chemicals to intentionally cause an explosion is grounds for immediate demotion.

3.5 - Psychiatrist

• The psychiatrist should be open to provide services to the crew, to their comfort and need. Private and community therapy should be organized as fit to the psychiatrist's desire.

3.6 - Virologist

• Beneficial viruses should have their properties listed on the distributive agent and made easily known to crewmembers exposed to it. Method of transmission should not be airborne, as consent is mandatory for the spread to be considered legal. Failure to do so is grounds for demotion.
• Harmful viruses should never leave the space of the Virology workspace. If exposure occurs, the Virologist in question may be charged with Biological Terror.

OOC Policy

• Do not use the right to refuse treatment as a way to soft round remove other players. At some point you will be expected to revive them, regardless of justification; if no one else can possibly do it.