Difference between revisions of "Medicine"

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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 raiders, 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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-'''Medicine''' is used to improve outcomes when treating a colonist's [[injury]](s), to remove or install body parts/replacements, and to build hospital beds.
+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]].
-{{asof|A15}} you can now produce medicine from herbal medicine, [[neutroamine]] and [[cloth]]. This requires research and the building [[Drug lab]].
+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.
-{{asof|A16}} treatments are now of any quality from 0-100%, rather than being 'good' or normal treatments. This directly affects the recovery rate from illnesses. Higher quality medicine improves the overall quality of the treatment.
+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.
-Healing is done by colonists with the [[Skills#Medicine|medicine]] skill enabled. The patient needs to have [[Overview#Patient|patient]] enabled and be in a bed. Medicine is not required, but will '''improve the chance of a good treatment''' drastically, allow for the '''healing of multiple small injuries in one go''' and '''double the amount of experience gained''' by the doctor.
-'''Good Treatment''' doubles a colonist's heal rate and reduces the chance of any lasting effect from an injury.
-As doctoring greatly depends on consciousness, sight and manipulation, having a doctor with bionic eyes and hands greatly improves the effectiveness of your medicine.
-{| {{STDT| sortable c_06 text-center}}
-! Doctoring stats !! Consciousness !! Sight !! Manipulation
-|-
-! [[Base_Healing_Quality|Base Healing Quality]]
-| - || | 70% || | 90%
-|-
-! [[Healing_Speed|Healing Speed]]
-| 100% || | 80% || | 90%
-|-
-! [[Surgery_Success_Chance|Surgery Success Chance]]
-| 100% || | 40% || | 40%
-|}
-The table above describes the importance of a doctors consciousness, sight and manipulation. For example: if a doctor has only 75% manipulation, his healing quality and healing speed is reduced by 25% * 90% = 22.5%, while his surgery success chance is reduced by 25% * 40% = 10%.
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-'''{{asof|A16}} the below table is obsolete as 'good' treatments are replaced by a treatment quality value ranging from 0-100%.'''
-== Resource Shortage ==
-{{Resource| name        = No Medicine
-| description = Sometimes resources are scarce and treatment has to go forward without any medicine. This guarantees bad treatment quality from any but the most experienced and/or enhanced of doctors.
-| tags        =
-{{Tag/Chance for Good Treatment | 0.5 }}
-}}
-== Growable Medicine ==
-{{Item
-| name        = Herbal Medicine
-| image       = Herbal_Medicine.png
-| description = ''A pack of herbal concoctions typically extracted from the Healroot plant. Less potent than industrial pharmaceuticals.''
-| information = [[Herbal Medicine|Herbal medicine]] is a cheaper and easier to obtain form of medicine. This is the only medicine that can be obtained via farming [[Healroot]], generally making it very useful for new colonies with limited silver. It serves with most of the functions of normal medikits with the exception of not being as effective as medikits. However, it cannot serve as materials for a [[hospital bed]].
-| tags        =
-{{Tag/Chance for Good Treatment | 0.4 }}
-}}
-== Imported Medicine ==
-{{Item
-| name        = Medikits
-| image       = Medicine Icon.png
-| description = ''Medical staff use these supplies to heal the wounded.''
-| information = Medikits can be [[trade|bought]] from traders, taken from raiders or produced by colonists using a [[Drug lab]]. Combat traders carry large quantities of them at a discount price to encourage violence and raise demand for their other goods.
-| tags        =
-{{Tag/Chance for Good Treatment | 0.7 }}
-}}
-{{Item
-| name        = Glitterworld Medicine
-| image       = Glitterworld Medicine.png
-| description = ''Advanced medical supplies from a high-tech [[Glitterworld|glitterworld]].''
-| information = [[Glitterworld Medicine|Glitterworld medicine]] can be [[trade|bought]] from traders. Each one comes with a copy of ''Doctoring for Dummies'', giving even colonists without any skill a high chance for a good treatment.
-| tags        =
-{{Tag/Chance for Good Treatment | 1.6 }}
-}}
 </noinclude>

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