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
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| medical potency base = 0.7
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}}
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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.

Although there's a lot of talk about Medicine when it comes to diseases; ordinary Medicine is still adequate for treating even the [[plague]] and [[malaria]] with ordinary beds, providing that the patients are rested at all times and well-fed, treatment is prompt, and a healthy doctor with at least 8 or 9 medicine skill (even without the use of the holy grail that is [[penoxycyline]].

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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