Editing Medicine

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{{Define|Medicine
| always haulable = true
| def name = Medicine
| description = Medical staff use these supplies to heal the wounded.
| draw gui overlay = true
| e type = Medicine
| graphic class = Graphic_Single
| graphic path = Things/Item/Resource/Medicine
| label = medicine
| parent name = ResourceBase
| path cost = 15
| resource readout priority = Middle
| rotatable = false
| selectable = true
| sound drop = Standard_Drop
| sound interact = Standard_Drop
| stack limit = 75
| thing class = Medicine
| use standard health = true
| max health base = 100
| use hit points = true
| deterioration rate base = 1
| flammability base = 1.0
| market value base = 25
| max hit points base = 100
| medical potency base = 0.7
|mass = 0.5
}}
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Medicine is used in [[doctoring]] to improve the results of medical treatment substantially compared to the organic [[herbal medicine]], but isn't as effective as [[glitterworld medicine]]. 

In terms of Medicine's optimal use in regards to its medical potency: medicine is best used for treating diseases and infections; it's overkill for standard injuries (unless a pawn is bleeding out so rapidly that they'll bleed out even before herbal medicine treats the wounds), but also isn't good enough to reliably perform surgical operations - unless the doctor is bionic and is enhanced by potentially [[luciferium]] and [[go-juice]] in conjunction, or is a trauma savant. If you use ordinary medicine in surgical operations, you are generally going to be taking a somewhat significant risk, as you're less likely to succeed with ordinary medicine in Alpha 16 compared to if you were to use herbal medicine in Alpha 15.

Medicine can either be occasionally looted from pirate [[raider]]s, purchased from outlandish/orbital traders, or manufactured at a [[drug lab]] using herbal medicine, [[cloth]], and [[neutroamine]]. For the latter option, only people with at least 6 medicine ''and'' 3 crafting can produce medicine.
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